Research highlights alarming rates of diabetic retinopathy; an ophthalmologist shares what to know.

Michigan teen Jake Juip becomes 100-meter Michigan state high school champion in adaptive track and field race using adaptive equipment designed to meet the needs of his rare neuromuscular condition.

Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., and his wife, Martha A. Darling, have made a generous gift of $25 million to the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) within the University of Michigan Medical School.

Adelaide Tovar, Ph.D., was awarded an NIH Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) K99/R00, a specialized career transition program intended for postdocs who are from underrepresented backgrounds and/or have demonstrated a commitment to increasing inclusivity and equity in the scientific workforce.

DCMB is pleased to announce that Arushi Varshney, Ph.D., Arushi Varshney, Ph.D., is promoted to Assistant Research Scientist, effective September 1, 2024

Cong Ma, Ph.D., joins DCMB as an assistant professor, effective September 1, 2024.

Since January 1, 2023, 11 faculty have joined the 132 CCMB faculty members who belong to different U-M schools and colleges (Medical School, College of Engineering (COE), College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), College of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, and School of Information).

Ryan Stidham, MD, MS, from the Department of Internal Medicine, is appointed as DCMB Associate Chair for Clinical and Translational Research and as Associate Director of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (CCMB)

DATA is calling for trainee posters that apply computational methods, data science solutions, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to solve problems in health care, pharmacy, chemistry, and biomedical engineering, in particular in the areas of drug design, drug repositioning, and treatment assessment.

This summer and into the fall, DCMB is hosting three international students for up to six months each. They come from China, France and Korea, eager to learn and expand their education and experience through an extended visit at the University of Michigan (U-M) and DCMB.

Dr. Wing will guest lecture in BIOINF 575, BIOINF 527, and BIOINF 500 while providing departmental workshops across campus to brief faculty and students on Generative AI tools in the classroom. In Winter 2025, he will lecture for BIOINF 529.

Jie Lui, PhD, was recognized with the EBS Research Award and Weichen (Arthur) Zhou, Ph.D., with the EBS Research Award

DCMB is pleased to announce the promotion of Rajasree Menon, Ph.D., to Research Scientist and Weichen (Arthur) Zhou, Ph.D., to Research Assistant Professor

Joshua Welch, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB) was awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) grant for his project titled: “Atlas-scale Hierarchical Identification of Cell Types and Functions.”

The 2024-25 Doximity Residency Navigator has been released. It shows that U-M has six top 5 medical education programs, with nine more in the top 10 and another nine in the top 25.