We’ve always known we were top-tier. Now it’s official: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is ranked in the top tier for research among medical schools in the latest annual rankings from U.S. News & World Report!

Check out the cover of Microscopy Today for a stunning #Microscopy image by Bogdan Kochetov and Rebecca Raphael, members of Shikhar Uttam's lab. academic.oup.com/mt/article/32/…

Thank you for sharing your summer with us, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Academy students! These high school students spent eight weeks at Pitt working on #CancerResearch projects with faculty mentors.

🎉New publication alert! anne-ruxandra carvun lab has published a study on de novo gene emergence using ancestral sequence reconstruction. Discover how this approach reveals insights into genomic evolution: tinyurl.com/3mxwkdue

Can mushrooms save the planet? Fungi have enzymes with low substrate specificity which can make them useful for cleaning up toxic compounds in polluted environments shout out to Steph for editing her first bioZone video! watch on YouTube to support us 👇 youtube.com/shorts/Jgt8iAd…

New research alert! 🎉 Sequence-to-function models unlock gene regulation, opening the path to new disease discovery mechanisms. Read more in this paper from Assistant Prof. Maria Chikina: tinyurl.com/83d8thw3

🚨New publication from John Barton. Meet popDMS, a computational method using population genetics to analyze deep mutational scanning data. popDMS is perfect for complex datasets with multiple time points or conditions. tinyurl.com/3wvjzpr9

Campus is alive again and it feels so right. #H2P #PossibleAtPitt

How did CPCB alum Ying Liu build a career in #SoftwareEngineering at Google? Check out our latest alumni success story to read how Liu is applying his computational biology training to tech. tinyurl.com/y6x62cjx

Have a great first day of classes, students!

Here's to a great school year! New to the department? Watch this video featuring welcome messages from faculty and staff. youtube.com/watch?v=T8qAEu…

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Shikhar Uttam, who was awarded a grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support his computational biology research. Read more about the grant: tinyurl.com/58vcv4dk

You're invited to Pitt Biological Physics Day on September 17 @ the O'Hara Student Center Ballroom. Register by September 6 to reserve your spot: pittbiologicalphysicsday.wordpress.com #biology #physics

Applications for 2025 are now open! Learn more and apply: csb.pitt.edu/cobb/

Women in Bio is offering a fall mentoring program to help women in the life sciences achieve their career goals. Register for the kickoff event on September 10: tinyurl.com/3k8hzfmr

Don’t miss your chance to shape Pitt’s future! 🌟 Join the forums for the Campus Master Plan and give your input on key topics like accessibility, open spaces, and student life. 📆 Sep 4 from 6-8 p.m. 📆 Sep 5 from 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m. pitt.ly/4geBF4G

New research from UttamLab pushes forward the performance limits of unsupervised methods in the difficult task of segmenting cells and their nuclei in tissue samples. The method, UNSEG, achieves state-of-art deep learning performance. tinyurl.com/cpsxwe6s

If you're on campus in Oakland, you might take a moment to visit a special open-air 9/11 memorial outside Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall. It's a moving reminder of the cost, paid in lives that can never be restored, only honored.

Computational biology CPCB PhD student Anni Li has won the prestigious Hult Prize! Her startup is developing a stethoscope that will empower patients to monitor their heart health at home.

Alumna Virginia Burger is launching therapeutics startups in Baltimore that address biomedical problems. As entrepreneur-in-residence at Blackbird Labs, she combines her computational biology background with business skills. Read more: tinyurl.com/yc57uybb