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Harold Pimentel awarded Hypothesis Fund grant for rare genetics research
Harold Pimentel, PhD(Link is external), 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(Link is external) 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
Guggenheim Fellowship awarded Prof. Jingyi Jessica Li
Five UCLA faculty members are among a distinguished group of 198 scholars, scientists and creative professionals from the U.S. and Canada selected to receive 2025 Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced this week. The new fellows were chosen from a pool of more than 3,500 applicants.
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.
New AI model efficiently reaches clinical-expert-level accuracy in complex medical scans
By Kevin McClanahan
Media Contact | David Sampson | DSampson@mednet.ucla.edu
UCLA researchers have developed a deep-learning framework that teaches itself quickly to automatically analyze and diagnose MRIs and other 3D medical images – with accuracy matching that of medical specialists in a fraction of the time. An article describing the work and the system’s capabilities is published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
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