USC Dornsife News

Offering a strong sense of community among students, instructors and staff, USC Dornsife’s QBIO major addresses a burgeoning need for intellectually adaptable data scientists.

Inspired by his father’s fight against non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, USC Dornsife’s Remo Rohs studies the molecular nature of cancer. [2½ min read]

USC Dornsife scientists and their colleagues have developed a model that estimates two different ways microbes will respond to rising sea temperatures. [1½ min read]

Pragya Goel’s academic career path eventually led her to study minute details of the brain. Now, she’ll graduate from USC Dornsife as a superstar doctoral student who uses computational biology to study neuroscience. [4 min read]

A trailblazer in computational biology, USC Dornsife’s Michael Waterman, recently elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, got an unlikely start in life. [5 min read]

As the convergence of big data and the biological sciences accelerates, a new USC Dornsife program enables students to ask and answer some of the living world’s most pressing scientific questions.

The Arieh Warshel Institute of Computational Biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen will support international collaborations and cutting-edge research in bioinformatics and computer-aided enzyme and drug design.

Science has laid bare the human genome in its entirety, giving researchers, clinicians and each of us extraordinary access to our genetic blueprint — and the promise and problems that come with it.

University Professor Michael Waterman will share the $1 million prize with two other leaders in bioinformatics.