Boston University Graduate Program in Bioinformatics
Preparing the Next Generation of Bioinformaticians
The Bioinformatics Program is highly interdisciplinary, and includes more than 50 faculty mentors from the School of Medicine, College of Engineering, School of Public Health and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. BU Bioinformatics is one of the first PhD programs in Bioinformatics – their first PhD class entered in 1999. They have had more than 120 PhD graduates in their 20+ years of existence. While genomics research was the focus of BU Bioinformatics in the early days, the Program has substantially broadened its research agenda, into systems biology, microbiome research, and synthetic biology. They also have a presence at the NEIDL, the BU Biosafety Level 4 lab, which is actively working on COVID-19 and Ebola viruses. Many of their PhD students work closely with experimental labs to develop new data analysis methodology.