Iowa State University

Take a look at the

• Fall 2009 Orientation for our new BCB graduate students


• BCB Lab, a student research initiative


• Summer Institute in Computational and Systems Biology


• BCB undergraduate program


• The Systems Biology Symposium was well attended and received.

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 nearly 10 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 ranging from $22,000 to $30,000 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 as a result of the participation of outstanding faculty members.

News & Updates

Zaffarano Research Prize

Jeffry Sander, a BCB graduate student received Iowa State's prestigious Zaffarano Research Prize as a result of research done in Dr. Drena Dobbs' lab. He received his Ph.D. in December.

Jeff had his research results published in many journals detailing the computa-tional design and experimental testing of zinc finger proteins. These can be used to target protein functional domains to virtually any DNA sequence of interest. Dobbs explained this has great implications for development of novel clinical therapies and they are being evaluated in several human clinical trials, including gene therapies to treat AIDS.

He is currently a postdoc in Molecular Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.