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Congratulations to Rachel Mester and Apeksha Singh!
The Department of Computational Medicine and especially the Biomathematics Ph.D. program wants to congratulate Rachel Mester and Apeksha Singh for finishing their Ph.D. in Biomathematics.
Biomathematics PhD Students Mariana Harris Heredia and Xiangting Li Receive Dissertation Year Award
The Dissertation Year Award is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertation. This is the first time the Department of Computational Medicine has received two Dissertation Year Awards! The department is very proud of both Mariana and Xiangting and we look forward to the great work they will do during the upcoming academic year. Congratulations!
Biomath PhD program welcomes nine new students
This fall, the Department of Computational Medicine at UCLA welcomes nine new students to its Biomathematics Ph.D. program. The incoming students have a diverse backgrounds in mathematics and biology, and they aspire to integrate different disciplines in their research.
Vivek Agarwal
- Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Kai Akamatsu
Machine learning tool identifies rare, undiagnosed immune disorders through patients’ electronic health records
By Kevin McClanahan
Researchers say a machine learning tool can identify many patients with rare, undiagnosed diseases years earlier, potentially improving outcomes and reducing cost and morbidity. The findings, led by researchers at UCLA Health, are described in Science Translational Medicine.
MSCR Alumnus Recognized for Advancing Diversity in Healthcare
Dr. Bruce Ovbiagele, associate dean and professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been honored with the prestigious W. Lester Henry Award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by the American College of Physicians. This esteemed accolade is a testament to Dr. Ovbiagele's unwavering commitment to fostering diversity and equity within the healthcare landscape.
Faculty members discuss impact of AI on academic research
Elizabeth Kivowitz | ekivowitz@stratcomm.ucla.edu | UCLA Newsroom
More than 150 UCLA faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students attended or tuned in to the livestream of Research in the Age of AI Symposium, which was held Feb. 15 at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.
Professor Ken Lange honored at annual symposium
UCLA Receives $4.6M Grant from The Warren Alpert Foundation to Launch Computational Biology/AI Training Program
UCLA has received a $4.6 million grant from The Warren Alpert Foundation to establish the Warren Alpert UCLA Computational Biology/AI Training and Retention Program.
UCLA SwabSeq Lab Completes 2 Million COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests
More than four years after the world first learned about COVID that led to an unprecedented global health crisis in modern history and upended life as we knew it, UCLA researchers behind the SwabSeq COVID-19 PCR test came together November 13 in honor of SwabSeq’s third anniversary and its milestone of reaching 2 million processed tests.