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Congratulations Dr. Dittmer

May 14, 2025
The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 University Distinguished Professorships. These honors represent some of the highest recognitions our University can bestow, awarded to faculty whose scholarly achievements, teaching excellence, and service to the Carolina community exemplify the highest...

Dr. Elizabeth Brunk for being awarded the 2025 PhRMA Foundation Faculty

March 19, 2025
Dr. Elizabeth Brunk was awarded the 2025 PhRMA Foundation Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Discovery! Dr. Brunk leads a systems genomics lab that integrates single-cell technologies and artificial intelligence to study how cancer cells rapidly adapt their DNA. Her groundbreaking research focuses on identifying and targeting these genetic adaptations to...

Brunk Lab | CytoCellDB

September 11, 2024
Dr. Elizabeth Brunk聽got some nice press for the development of CytoCellDB, a new database designed to fill a crucial gap in cancer research by focusing on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA). Published in Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) Cancer, the database identifies which cancer cell lines contain ecDNA, which is associated with cancer...

WORKSHOP | the Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD)

September 5, 2024
Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD) Workshop on Oct 28, 2024, at 大象传媒-Chapel Hill We are pleased to announce the聽Gaussian accelerated Molecular Dynamics (GaMD)聽workshop that will be held on Monday, Oct 28, 2024, at聽the University of North Carolina (大象传媒), Chapel Hill. The workshop is supported by the 大象传媒聽Department of Pharmacology聽and聽Computational Medicine...

Dr. Miao Named Editor-in-Chief of Nature Journal

June 20, 2024
On June 11, 2024, 大象传媒 Health announced Dr. Yinglong Miao, associate professor of pharmacology and computational medicine program, has been named editor-in-chief of npj Drug Discover, part of Nature Partner Journals.

2024 Winners of CompMed Pilot Awards

January 13, 2024
Congratulations to our two winners of the 2024 CompMed Pilot Award Drs. Elizabeth Brunk and Ashok Krishnamurthy; and Drs. Guorong Wu and Todd Cohen

Dr.Leiderman on the editorial board at Biophysical Journal in the Systems Biophysics Section

December 29, 2023
Dr. Karin Leiderman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and faculty in the Computational Medicine Program. She was appointed to be on the editorial board at Biophysical Journal in the Systems Biophysics Section in 2023. ( a three-year term).

Featured Faculty: Elizabeth Brunk, PhD

July 7, 2023
A grand challenge in the genome sciences is identifying functionally relevant variants and interpreting their biological impacts on cellular systems. A growing body of work in the biomedical sciences generates and analyzes omics data; our work contributes to these efforts by focusing on the integration of different omics data types...

CompMed PIs are some of the speakers at Lineberger’s 46th symposium

May 19, 2023
10 May 2023 Leading investigators offer 鈥榟ighly scientific, but patient-focused talks on women鈥檚 cancers at the Lineberger’s 46th symposium (Read HERE)