• 99% graduate job placement in Bioinformatics

  • Revolutionary science in over 30 faculty labs

  • The interdisciplinary Bioinformatics PhD program spans six academic units

  • Two degree options: PhD or Professional Master's program

  • First Bioinformatics graduate program in the country

Welcome

The mission of the Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Graduate Program is to educate and prepare students to reach the forefront of leadership in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology, and to integrate research and education on the use of information technologies in biology and medicine. The program includes an interdisciplinary doctoral (PhD) program spanning a variety of academic departments at Georgia Tech and a Professional Science Masters (MS) program that prepares students for careers in Bioinformatics.

Bioinformatics Program Research Areas

 

 

Featured Alumnus

Developing a research career can be tough on family life; flexibility and perseverance pay off.

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Featured Students

Congratulations to Joshua Lewis (Ph.D.), Prerna Jain (M.S.), and George Gruenhagen (M.S.) who were recognized as the 2019 Outstanding Students in Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech. Each student received a monetary award funded by the J. Leland Jackson Endowed Fellowships Fund in Bioinformatics. Students were selected for demonstrated excellence in their academic studies and their bioinformatics research.

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News

Congratulations 2019 Outstanding Bioinformatics Students

Congratulations to Joshua Lewis (Ph.D.), George Gruenhagen (M.S.), and Prerna Jain (M.S.) who were recognized as the 2019 Outstanding Students in...

Georgia Tech, Institut Pasteur Receive $2.5 M NIH Grant to Study Phage Therapy

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.5 million grant over five years to advance the clinical potential of bacteriophage to treat...

Detecting Ovarian Cancer in Mice

Work by Facundo Fernandez lands on the cover of the Journal of Proteome Research.

Pre-Life Building Blocks Spontaneously Align in Evolutionary Experiment

Defying expectations, life building blocks spontaneously linked up in an experiment on how prebiotic chemistry took steps toward becoming the...

Student News

Congratulations 2019 Outstanding Bioinformatics Students
Alli Gombolay, 2019-20 ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship

Congratulations to Bioinformatics doctoral student, Alli Gombolay, for being selected as a 2019-20 ARCS Scholar Award Fellowship.

New Student Orientation, fall 2019

Bioinformatics Graduate Program Welcomes New Students

2019 O'Hara Fellowship Awarded to Bioinformatics Student

Congratulations to Alli Gombolay who was selected for the 2019 O'Hara Fellowship