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Zandigohar poses with BMES sign at conference

PhD student presents AI tool at BMES conference, publishes paper in Bioinformatics

Meghan King | Posted on December 05, 2025

University of California at San Diego Bioengineering, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Computer Science and Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Nano Engineering Distinguished Professor Shankar Subramaniam talks about his research and time as Liang's post-doc advisor at UIUC.

CBQB honors Liang during fifth annual Research Symposium

Meghan King | Posted on November 25, 2025

Three PhD students receive Dean’s Scholarship

Meghan King | Posted on November 17, 2025

Yang Dai

Dai to serve as CBQB interim director

Posted on November 11, 2025

postdoctoral associate Moein Naderi and former graduate student Giuseppe Lauricella

Researchers publish inertial microfluidics papers in top biomedical engineering journals

Meghan King | Posted on September 22, 2025

Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor Beatriz Peñalver Bernabé

Peñalver Bernabé uses grant to understand pathobiology of perinatal depression in women of color

Meghan King | Posted on April 15, 2025

Ao Ma and Huiyu Li

Ma lab breakthrough transforms protein simulations

Meghan King | Posted on March 04, 2025

College of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Assistant Professor Konstantinos Chronis, also a BME affiliate faculty, and Richard and Loan Hill Professor, UIC Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology Jie Liang

In Memoriam: Long time faculty remembered for big smile, CBQB, passion

Meghan King | Posted on February 12, 2025

BME PhD student Tina Khajeh shows off her poster for the upcoming conference

PhD student recognized for poster of distinction award

Meghan King | Posted on November 15, 2024

A student learns about the research presented during the poster session at the fourth annual CBQB Research Day.

CBQB hosts fourth annual research symposium

Meghan King | Posted on November 14, 2024

UIC Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering PhD and College of Medicine student Ali Farhat

PhD student receives prestigious NIH grant for gene expression algorithms

Meghan King | Posted on October 24, 2024

Clinical Assistant Professor Meishan Lin welcomes those who attended the UIC Bioinformatics 20th anniversary symposium

BME celebrates 20th anniversary of bioinformatics program

Meghan King | Posted on October 24, 2024

Zhangli Peng, an assistant professor in the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering

Zhangli Peng receives NSF CAREER award to investigate how cells pass through pores

Meghan King | Posted on May 09, 2024

UIC graduate students receive Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Award

Meghan King | Posted on January 16, 2024

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering’s Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology 3rd Annual Research Day, November 6, 2023.

CBQB hosts third annual research day

Meghan King | Posted on January 09, 2024

Superimposed images of an RBC (in red) passing through a 0.28x1.87x5.0 μm3 slit.

New PNAS paper reveals how a human spleen works

Posted on November 10, 2023

CBQB Third Annual Research Day

Third annual CBQB Research Day set for November 6

Posted on November 03, 2023

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering professors for the Center for Bioninformatics and Quantitative Biology. They are (L-R) Zhangli Peng, Beatriz Penalver Bernabe, Yang Dai, Jie Liang, Ao Ma, Meishan Lin.

IBHE approves establishment of CBQB as a center at UIC

Posted on September 06, 2023

Micropatterned primary human hepatocytes dosed with free fatty acids and stained for lipid accumulation (red) and DAPI (blue).

BME faculty partner with UIUC to continue research into liver disease

Meghan King | Posted on September 05, 2023

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering BME Assistant Professor Zhangli Peng and his students Zhengxin Tang and Lubna Shah.

BME undergraduates sponsored by NSF published in leading journal in fluid mechanics

Meghan King | Posted on September 01, 2023

Ao Ma

Sources feature Ma’s breakthrough research in understanding protein function

Posted on August 31, 2023

Assistant Professor Kostas Chronis (L) of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Richard and Loan Hill Professor Jie Liang of the Department of Biomedical Engineering show off research from their DOE INCITE grant.

Liang and Chronis receive Department of Energy INCITE Award to study 3D genome folding

Meghan King | Posted on August 02, 2023

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering BME professor Zhangli Peng (L) and Dr. Peng Ji, Vice Chair of Research and Professor of Pathology at Northwestern, collaborate on a red blood cells project.

International collaboration will advance understanding of how red blood cells are generated

Meghan King | Posted on May 02, 2023

Robert Molokie of Division of Hematology and Oncology at UI Health and Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering Assistant Professor and member of the Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology Zhangli Peng shake hands in front of a quilt made by a sickle cell patient.

Peng wins junior faculty award from American Society of Hematology

Meghan King | Posted on March 07, 2023

Associate Professor and member of the Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology Ao Ma

Ma makes important breakthrough in understanding protein function

Meghan King | Posted on March 06, 2023

Graduate students Moein Naderi and Ludovica Barilla, a graduate student in UIC’s dual master’s degree program with the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, who did the microfluidic experiments.

Paper explores physical mechanisms of particle separation in viscoelastic fluids and its optimization

Meghan King | Posted on March 06, 2023

Poster presentation

CBQB hosts second annual research symposium

David Brazy | Posted on November 11, 2022

Penalver photo

Peñalver receives career development award

Posted on October 21, 2022

Study unlocks new information on ellipsoidal particles

David Brazy | Posted on August 23, 2022

Yang Dai

The data inside us

David Brazy | Posted on April 25, 2022

Gut bacteria

New study helps understand role of gut microbiome in gestational diabetes

Lori Botterman | Posted on February 16, 2022

Zhangli Peng

Researchers investigate impact of viscosity on sickle cell anemia

David Brazy | Posted on January 14, 2022

Jie Liang

CBQB hosts first annual research day

David Brazy | Posted on December 14, 2021

Yang Dai

Trio of grants to help unlock liver treatments

David Brazy | Posted on November 03, 2021

journal club ad image

CBQB launches new journal club

Posted on September 29, 2021

Dai

A grant that’s designed to heal wounds

David Brazy | Posted on September 08, 2021

A schematic overview of the BITFAM machine learning system developed by researchers at UIC.

Machine learning algorithm predicts how genes are regulated in individual cells

Posted on July 06, 2021

Diagram of coronavirus model

Bioengineers design coronavirus model

David Brazy | Posted on June 08, 2021

Ma Lab

Researchers describe how microtubules assemble, disassemble for the first time

Sharon Parmet | Posted on February 19, 2021

Yang Dai

Mathematics integral part of new UI Cancer Center member’s studies

Posted on February 12, 2021