CMDB graduate student, Jieying Li, is a recipient of the 2025 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship for her project titled “Defining a blood-ganglion barrier in the peripheral nervous system.” This prestigious award enhances the integrated research and clinical training of promising students who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or related careers aimed at improving global cardiovascular, cerebrovascular […]

On September 23,2021, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the largest private biomedical research institution in the nation, announced it is investing $300 million in 33 new investigators this year, including Biology/CMDB faculty member, Dr. Xin Chen, for her award-winning research in epigenetics. To learn more visit HHMI’s website.

CMDB program and Cunningham lab alumnus, Myriam Heiman, among one of the recipients of the 2021 NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award for her project titled, “Identification of TDP-43 Modifiers Through Single-Cell Transcriptional and Epigenomic Dissection of ALS and FTLD-MND”. This prestigious award supports exceptionally innovative or unconventional research projects with the potential to create new […]

The CMDB Program is excited to welcome Dr. Steven L. Salzberg! Dr. Salzberg’s research focuses on the development of new computational methods for analysis of DNA from the latest sequencing technologies.

Johns Hopkins University graduate programs are once again among the nation’s best, including a #6 ranking for this graduate program, according to U.S. News & World Report‘s annual Best Graduate Schools list.