Dmitry Korkin Receives $100,000 Grant from M&H Foundation

Dmitry Korkin, Harold L. Jurist ‘61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the M&H Foundation to support Dr. Korkin and his students as they pursue groundbreaking research spanning the fields of bioinformatics of complex diseases, computational genomics, systems biology, and biomedical data analytics.

The M&H Foundation grant will directly support lab members’ work on cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary projects – including the study of molecular mechanisms underlying genetic disorders and deadly infections, understanding the evolution of animal and plant genomes on the large scale, and testing biological hypotheses generated by computational predictions – and participation in collaborations nationally and internationally.