• 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

Josh Lewis completed his PhD in Bioinformatics in 2020.  He is completing the M.D. portion of his graduate study at Emory University.

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Featured Students

The Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program is proud to announce Devika Singh as our winner for the inaugural “Mark Borodovsky Prize in the College of Sciences” for the Top Bioinformatics PhD student, 2021.  The Borodovsky Prize is intended to recognize outstanding academic merit at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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News

ASPIRE-ing to Find Fast Solutions to the Opioid Health Crisis

School of Biological Sciences’ Jeffrey Skolnick and Hongyi Zhou are part of an award-winning NIH effort to create innovative, AI-powered platforms...

Targeting Radiation Resistance: Why Some Tumors Are So Stubborn

Kemp lab uses genome-scale modeling to understand tumor metabolism and predict tumors’ responses to radiation therapy

Georgia Tech and Shriners Collaborate on Research Data Resources

BME's May Wang leading three of the seven projects in new initiative to improve lives of pediatric patients

Lily Cheung Wins $1.1 Million Human Science Frontier Program Award

The award will go towards investigating the interplay of cellular movement and metabolism in grass stomata – the microscopic breathing valves on...

Student News

Camila Medrano Trochez, Thesis Defense

Transcriptomic Profiling of Human Cells Destined for Therapeutic Applications

Carlos Ruiz-Perez, Thesis Defense

Bacteriophages in the Chattahoochee: Novel bioinformatics approaches to characterize viral ecology in freshwater systems

Ashwath Kumar, Thesis Defense

Quantitative Analysis of CHIP-SEQ Signals and Transcriptomes

Xin Wu, Thesis Defense

Functional Epigenomics in Insects using Next-Generation Sequencing Methods