• 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

Three Researchers Awarded Inaugural Seed Grants

New Petit Institute program for core facilities supporting novel experiments

Origin of Life’s Handedness and Protein Biochemistry

How chiral systems emerged is one of the key questions of origins-of-life research.

Yellow Jackets: Highly Social Little Stingers

Michael Goodisman studies social behavior of yellow jackets.

New Scholars for a New Decade

The 2020 scholars are a diverse cohort whose expertise spans a wide range of majors, notes chemistry professor Raquel Lieberman.

Student News

Hector Espitia-Navarro Thesis Defense

Hector Espitia-Navarro, Bioinformatics PhD Student, defended his thesis on December 9, 2019.

Hamid Hassanzadeh Thesis Defense

Hamid Hassanzadeh, Bioinformatics PhD Student, defended his thesis on November 20, 2019.

Emily Norris Thesis Defense

Bioinformatics PhD student Emily Norris defended her thesis on October 23, 2019.

Shashidhar Ravishankar, Bioinformatics Thesis Defense