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Computational Medicine welcomes three outstanding new faculty members
By Leticia Ortiz | Computational Medicine, UCLA
The Department of Computational Medicine is excited to welcome three outstanding new faculty members this year: Dr. Margaux Hujoel, Dr. Hosein Mohimani, and Dr. Yuzhe Yang. Each brings a unique perspective to our community, expanding our strengths in statistical genetics, small molecule discovery, and artificial intelligence for health.
Dr. Margaux Hujoel
Researchers map epigenomic landscapes of fat tissue cells, revealing how they shape obesity risk
Media Contact | David Sampson | DSampson@mednet.ucla.edu
Study shows obesity-linked genetic variants land in key regulatory regions of fat cells, offering new clues to how belly fat contributes to cardiometabolic disease development
UCLA’s Computational Genomics Summer Institute Celebrates 10 Years of Building Research Community
Summer program blends scientific rigor with social connection to advance collaboration in data-driven biology
By Leticia Ortiz | Computational Medicine, UCLA
AI model converts hospital records into text for better emergency care decisions
Media Contact | David Sampson | DSampson@mednet.ucla.edu
Celebrating Achievement: 26 Students Graduate with a Minor in Bioinformatics
On Thursday, June 5th, the Department of Computational Medicine hosted a graduation event honoring the graduating students. We are proud of their accomplishments and wish them all the best in their future endeavors!
Harold Pimentel awarded Hypothesis Fund grant for rare genetics research
Harold Pimentel, PhD is an assistant professor of computational medicine, computer science and human genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has received a seed grant from the Hypothesis Fund for his innovative project titled "Decoding rare genetic variation: Integrating Deep Mutational Scans with GWAS for disease insight."
Biomath PhD program welcomes five new students
Lange Symposium on Computational Statistics Videos Available
UCLA Open Positions
UCLA Computational Medicine is actively searching for outstanding candidates to join our faculty. In addition, several other active UCLA faculty searchers are relevant to our community.
CGSI 2024 Videos Now Available
The Department of Computational Medicine has sponsored the Computational Genomics Summer Institute (CGSI) with funding from the NIH since 2016. In July, more than 160 researchers and trainees from a number of disciplines (statistics, bioengineering, math, computer science, genetics, and others) came to UCLA to participate in CGSI 2024. Program director Dr.