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The Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia is proud to announce the publication of a pioneering study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 

In a significant achievement, two BI students were awarded the 2024-25 Endowed Graduate Fellowships given by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

The Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Dr. Richard E. Stearns, and Dr. Catherine E. Woteki as Distinguished Institute Professors.

One of the University of Virginia’s most ambitious research efforts is beginning to take shape. In the past several months, UVA announced and introduced the Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, which commenced operations in the UVA Research Park in September 2018, and most recently, appointed five individuals to join Executive Director Dr. Christopher L. Barrett on the senior leadership team.

Mortveit’s GDS Research Featured in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

With a four-story, stately steel frame in the foreground, construction workers hoisted and placed the final steel beam atop the structure at Town Center Four at the University of Virginia Research Park, the future home of the Biocomplexity Institute.

The Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the appointment of John Thompson as Distinguished Institute Fellow. Thompson spent 27 years at the United States Census Bureau, holding the office of director from 2013 to 2017.

The University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael S. Waterman, Ph.D., as Distinguished Institute Professor. 

The University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute announces that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with five entities in Turkey, establishing the Data Science for the Public Good (DSPG) Young Scholars program in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey’s capital city.

The Biocomplexity Institute is celebrating its two-year anniversary since joining the University of Virginia in 2018, and continues to make great progress in its transition to UVA.

Fox is considered a pioneer in the fields now known as computational and data science, and he has brought his considerable influence and expertise to the University of Virginia, where he joined the faculty of the Biocomplexity Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Department of Computer Science in July.

President Biden appointed Cathie Woteki, visiting distinguished institute professor in the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia, to serve as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House announced on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.

The University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute is pleased to announce the visiting scholar appointment of Joseph J. Salvo as an Institute Fellow, joining a distinguished group of scholars who have been added to the Institute in recent years.

With a long and successful career steeped in statistics, the University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute’s Sallie Keller will step into a new post that might well have been tailor made for the nationally recognized research scientist. Keller will join the U.S. Census Bureau as chief scientist and associate director for research and methodology lending her scientific knowledge and expertise to advise the Census Bureau’s programs and continued need to produce high-quality statistical products describing America and for use by decision makers in many roles.

Dr. Venkataswamy and Dr. Dola will bring expertise in Computer Engineering and Computer Science expertise to the Contagion Science team. Their experience will support large computational efforts.

The Biocomplexity Institute (BI) of the University of Virginia has been selected as a partner of the Joint Disaster Medicine and Public Health Research Ecosystem.