Computational Biology News

The Whitehead Scholars Program, helps attract and nurture the most promising biomedical researchers to the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine.

Lawrence David, PhD, and Melanie Thomas, MD, have been named Fulbright Scholars for the 2024-2025 academic year. The Fulbright Scholars Program awards fellowships to faculty, administrators, and other professionals to teach, research, and conduct professional projects for up to one year in more than 135 different countries.

CBB’s student, Ben Neubert, participated in Duke Startup Showcase. He is also a founder for the New Ventures Develop course in I&E for Spring 2024. (I&E 395).

Four students successfully defended their dissertations and will graduate from the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program.

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics student Danting Jiang will be defending her dissertation on April 1, 2024.

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics student Devang Thakkar will be defending his dissertation April 3, 2024. 

Two Computational Biology and Bioinformatics students will be defending their dissertations during the month of March. They will be held in person and virtually. 

Niven Singh, a 5th year PhD student in Duke’s Computational Biology & Bioinformatics program, earned a “Best Poster Award” during the 11th International Conference on Biological Physics in Seoul, South Korea in August.

Jeffrey Headd graduated from Duke University in 2009 with a Ph.D. degree in computational biology and bioinformatics as a member of the David and Jane Richardson lab following his undergraduate studies in computational biology (B.S.) at Brown University.