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Polygenic scores – estimates of an individual’s predisposition for complex traits and diseases – hold promise for identifying patients at risk of disease and guiding early, personalized treatments, but UCLA experts found the scores fail to account for the wide range of genetic diversity across individuals in all ancestries.
David Sampson | dsampson@mednet.ucla.edu
The Overton Prize recognizes the research, education, and service accomplishments of early to mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics. The Overton Prize was instituted in 2001 to honor the untimely loss of G. Christian Overton, a leading bioinformatics researcher and a founding member of the ISCB Board of Directors.
Computational Medicine continues to expand its faculty by recruiting professors with primary appointments in other departments and recent PhDs as Assistant Adjunct Professors. The new faculty complement the research of our current faculty and students and contribute to the community by serving on committees and participating in CGSI and other activities.
The UCLA Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, a collaboration with Amazon, announced today its first cohort of 12 Amazon fellowships and six gift-funded research projects.
UCLA Computational Medicine and Statistics professor Jingyi Jessica Li won one of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Awards. The award recognizes the talents, leadership potential, and achievements of high-potential early career statistical scientists.
UCLA Computational Medicine and Statistics professor Jingyi Jessica Li won one of the 2023 COPSS Emerging Leader Awards. The award recognizes the talents, leadership potential, and achievements of high-potential early career statistical scientists.
Please join us on May 15 for the prestigious, honorary John H. Walsh Young Investigators Research Prize Seminar.
Dr. Valerie A. Arboleda presents her research on Unraveling the Influence of Genetics in Human Disease.
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Dr. Weizhe Hong presents his research on Understanding the Social Brain.
The Department of Computational Medicine is pleased to announce a new online, self-supporting graduate program called the Master of Science in Data Science in Biomedicine. The program will combine foundational training in all areas of data science including machine learning, statistics, data
Charlotte Bhaskar, PLOS | cbhaskar@plos.org