After founding and leading the computational biology department (CBD) at CMU for 10 years, Professor Robert F. (Bob) Murphy has decided to step down as Head and return to the faculty. Under Bob’s leadership, CBD established itself as a leader in both research and education. It has consistently been the top contributor to the […]

E. coli behavior in obstacle courses has implications for robotic search and rescue

Professor Kathryn Roeder has been elected by her peers to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for “outstanding contributions to research”.  This recognition is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive, with a total number of active members totaling 2,347. Dr. Roeder is professor of Statistics and Computational Biology and is […]

Robert Murphy’s career and research was profiled in The Scientist. To read the full article, click here.    

Computational Tool Could Help Relieve Suffering for Patients Not Helped by Mainline Therapy Physicians will be able to predict which of their patients with severe asthma are likely to benefit from treatment with systemic corticosteroids — and which might only suffer their side effects — with help from a dozen clinical variables researchers have identified […]

Hosein Mohimani, assistant professor in the Computational Biology Department, and Bernhard Haeupler, assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science Department, are among 126 recipients of 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the very best scientific minds working today.  The new Sloan fellows also include Florian Frick, assistant professor of mathematical […]

Automated instruments have revolutionized biomedical research, but the choice of experiments to be done is still made by scientists. At the AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting, Dr. Murphy will talk about the challenges of scale for constructing predictive models for complex biological systems and his group’s work on using automated systems in which experiments are chosen […]

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Pitt Team Up In influenza virus infected cells, eight viral genomic RNPs are assembled into progeny virions, which predominantly contain one copy of each. Regarding the virus, an important question had yet to be answered: What is the order of the assembly of all eight RNPs? Bob Murphy and Xiongtao […]

  Computational Biology Faculty We are seeking to hire new tenure-track faculty who share our vision for how computational biology can drive biomedical research.  Our department is a world leader in the development and implementation of rigorous computational approaches to biomedical research problems.  We are seeking applications from candidates in all research areas of computational biology and whose work is […]

Grant Will Fund Research on Genetic Factors Associated With Substance Abuse The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded Andreas Pfenning, assistant professor in the Computational Biology Department, an Avenir Award for genetics or epigenetics research, which the agency presents to early stage investigators who propose highly innovative studies. The award includes a five-year, $1.5 million […]