Here you can find a list of past and current news and events for the MD Anderson Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Click on the title for more information about a news item.
| New TCGA publication 29 April 2013 |
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| BCB contribution to continuing series in Nature (Read more...) |
| Congratulations to Roel Verhaak 5 April 2013 |
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| Recipient of 2013 Steck Award (Read more...) |
| Akbani lecture in Tucson 21 February 2013 |
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| TCGA G/BMaP conference (Read more...) |
| High-profile TCGA publication 28 December 2012 |
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| Verhaak et al. contribute (Read more...) |
| Papers presented at GENSIPS 2012 28 December 2012 |
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| CPRIT awarded 6 December 2012 |
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| Project for John Weinstein's group funded (Read more...) |
| Distinguished Guest Lecture Series speakers for the new year 6 December 2012 |
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| January and February speakers booked (Read more...) |
| Talks by Han Liang 29 November 2012 |
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| Recent lectures at Rice and in Korea (Read more...) |
| New paper by Weinstein and Su 29 November 2012 |
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| Article forthcoming in Bioinformatics (Read more...) |
| Liang and Kim in Cancer Letters 29 November 2012 |
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| Han Liang, YH Kim paper forthcoming (Read more...) |
| Verhaak receives Career Development Award 8 November 2012 |
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| Roel Verhaak receives second Career Development Award (Read more...) |
| TCGA Scientific Symposium 8 November 2012 |
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| Second TCGA annual symposium to feature BCB research (Read more...) |
| Han Liang Awarded Grant 3 September 2012 |
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| Han Liang awarded SPORE Development Award (Read more...) |
| Wenyi Wang Lectures in Georgia, China 5 July 2012 |
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| Wenyi Wang gave talks in Georgia and China (Read more...) |
| Han Liang Interviewed for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News 2 July 2012 |
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| Han Liang interviewed on RNA-seq in cancer research (Read more...) |
| GRA Update 25 June 2012 |
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| BCB Graduate Research Assistants win awards (Read more...) |
| Han Liang Gives Invited talks in Chicago, Nashville 16 April 2012 |
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| Han Liang gives invited talks on NGS in Chicago and Nashville (Read more...) |
| Institute of Medicine Cites Baggerly and Coombes 23 March 2012 |
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| Institute of Medicine report on Translational Omics drawn heavily from Baggerly & Coombes article (Read more...) |
| Baggerly and Coombes on 60 Minutes 13 February 2012 |
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| Keith Baggerly and Kevin Coombes appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss forensic bioinformatics (Read more...) |
| Han Liang Selected to Represent MD Anderson in Grant Competition 5 January 2012 |
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| News - Han Liang to submit grant proposal in February 2012 (Read more...) |
| Hoon Kim Receives Odyssey Fellowship 5 January 2012 |
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| MD Anderson Odyssey Program Awards Announced (Read more...) |
| The Lorraine Dell Program in Bioinformatics for Personalization of Cancer Medicine 4 November 2011 |
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| The Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology recently received a generous grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in honor of Lorraine Dell. The Lorraine Dell Program in Bioinformatics for Personalization of Cancer Medicine focuses on the current transition from microarray data to "next-generation sequencing" data on cancer genomes - in particular, on the use of such data to select the right therapy for each cancer patient. (Read more...) |
| BIOT-2011: 8th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium 20 October 2011 |
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| The Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UTMDACC, in collaboration with Rice University, co-hosted the The 8th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2011). (Read more...) |
| Advance Online Publication of Research by Peng Qiu, et al. in Nature Biotechnology 16 September 2011 |
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| "Extracting a cellular hierarchy from high-dimensional cytometry data with SPADE,” has been selected for advance online publication by Nature Biotechology. (Read more...) |
| Roel Verhaak receives the Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award 15 September 2011 |
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| Roel Verhaak, Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, received the Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award at MD Anderson's Symposia on Cancer Research 2011. (Read more...) |
| New Faculty: Xiaoping Su 1 September 2011 |
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| Xiaoping Su has recently joined the department as an Associate Professor. (Read more...) |
| Faculty Update: Bradley Broom 1 September 2011 |
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| Bradley Broom was promoted to Professor. (Read more...) |
| New Faculty: Ken Chen 1 September 2011 |
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| Ken Chen has recently joined the department as an Assistant Professor. (Read more...) |
| Faculty Update: Jing Wang 1 September 2011 |
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| Jing Wang was promoted to Associate Professor. (Read more...) |
| Administrative Supplements Awarded for funding round 1 September 2011 |
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| The MD Anderson GDAC led by Dr. Weinstein has been awarded two administrative supplements in the current funding round: Dr. Gordon Mills for proteomics studies, and Dr. Weinstein for combining data across tumor types. (Read more...) |
| Faculty Update: Rehan Akbani 1 September 2011 |
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| Rehan Akbani was appointed as an Assistant Professor on 9/1/2011. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department. (Read more...) |
| New Faculty: Arvind Rao 1 September 2011 |
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| Arvind Rao has recently joined the department as an Assistant Professor. (Read more...) |
| Baggerly Inducted as ASA Fellow 15 August 2011 |
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| Professor Keith A. Baggerly was inducted as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in August 2011. (Read more...) |