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The BCB Graduate Program

The BCB Graduate Program provides an interdisciplinary research environment where successful collaborations between life science researchers and computational scientists have developed over its ten year history.

Receive Stipend and Tuition Credits

Choose PhD study in ISU's BCB Graduate program and enter a vibrant learning community supported by world class resources. Entering students enjoy full tuition and health insurance credits, as well as a yearly stipend which can range up to $25,000 depending on the fellowship received. Apply by Jan. 15. FAQs to apply.

Outstanding BCB Faculty

Interdisciplinary research is possible at Iowa State in bioinformatics and computational biology because of the many collaborations among outstanding BCB faculty members.

News & Updates

BCB Student Recognition

Congratulations to Tonia Schwartz, a PhD student within the Interdepartmental Genetics major, at ISU, who was recently awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. More details here.

Schwartz also received a prestigious NSF-IGERT fellowship upon her admission to ISU and has been associated with the BCB graduate program through that fellowship.

Congratulations to Fall 2011 BCB graduates:

Preeti Bais, major professors, Julie Dickerson and Basil Nikolau, who has joined Stemina in Madison, Wisconsin;

Nick Larson, major professors, Dan Nettleton and Jack Dekkers, who has joined Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN;

Deepak Reyon, major professors, Drena Dobbs and Edward Yu, who has joined the lab of Keith Joung at Harvard Univ. in Boston, MA;

Michael Zimmermann, major professors, Robert Jernigan and Edward Yu, who will work as a postdoctoral fellow in his major professor's lab.