by Jamie Brian | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured News, News, Students
PhD student Achyudhan Kutuva received an award to attend the Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology (SACB) Conference. This conference, which took place at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on Feb. 9-12, brought together scientific leaders and...
by Jamie Brian | Feb 17, 2025 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Students
Andrew McNutt, a recent graduate of the Joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh PhD Program in Computational Biology (CPCB), is making his mark in drug discovery. McNutt’s path to CPCB was driven by a desire to apply his undergraduate background in...
by Jamie Brian | Jan 29, 2025 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Students
Caroline Larkin grew up with the great discoveries of science a few steps away. As a child, Larkin lived next to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. She didn’t know it at the time, but she would one day make her own impact in...
by Jamie Brian | Jan 15, 2025 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Students
When Ali Tugrul Balci moved from bustling Istanbul to the quiet charm of Pittsburgh, he didn’t expect to find a second home. But through his PhD program, he discovered both a supportive community and a passion for cutting-edge computational...
by Jamie Brian | Nov 19, 2024 | CPCB, Featured News, News, Research, Students
PhD candidate Emma Flynn recently took to the stage at the Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she delivered a lightning talk. This symposium, which occurred on Nov. 1, highlighted progress in the application of...
by Jamie Brian | Nov 13, 2024 | Featured News, News, Students
Yuhao Chen, a visiting PhD candidate from Zheijiang University in China, spent six months honing his computational biology research at Pitt. Living and working in Pittsburgh was a transformative experience for Chen. “I think the University of Pittsburgh has a...
