An invention developed by Rita Colwell has the potential to help save millions of lives, giving public health officials an added tool in the fight against pathogens.

Adam Phillippy and Michael Schatz are being recognized for their leadership in completing the first full sequence of the human genome.

The $2.7M award will be spread across four years, supporting his team’s ongoing work that uses machine learning techniques to interpret “multiomics” data.

Rita Colwell’s distinguished career culminates in project predicting and preventing cholera.

He will continue to lead the highly successful multidisciplinary center, which is ranked fourth in the nation for bioinformatics and computational biology.

Professor Michael Cummings and others will analyze the synthetic process that goes into manufacturing antisense oligonucleotides—small pieces of DNA or RNA that can bind to specific molecules of RNA.

Junior computer science major Ipsa Mittra presents research at SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference.

In addition to his UMIACS appointment, he will be the first Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor in Computer Science.

He is the recipient of a $50,000 grant that will support his research on genetic ancestry.

She joins the University of Maryland on July 1 as an assistant professor of computer science, focused on using powerful computational tools to unlock the full breadth of information available in genomic data.