Dr. Yana Bromberg, a professor with joint appointments in the Emory College Departments of Biology and Computer Science, has been elected Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.
Dr. Bromberg, who is also a principal fellow at Emory’s Center for AI Learning, joins 18 other ISCB fellows from around the globe who are at the forefront of research in computational biology and biostatistics.
The society is honoring Dr. Bromberg for shaping the field with her pioneering bioinformatics work to decipher DNA blueprints of life’s molecular functions. Specifically, for her development of the neural network-based method for screening for non-acceptable polymorphisms (SNAP). Among its many uses is SNAP’s ability to predict disease susceptibility by testing the protein-coding sections of the human genome.
The research has implications for disease diagnosis and treatment, environmental cleanup and even the origins of life.
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