UC Berkeley and UCSF launch BCBI: 24 postdoc fellows and open-source BioJupyter
berkeley_ai · x · 2026-09-24
UC Berkeley and UCSF launched the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) to couple AI/computing with biomedical experiments.
- Three prongs: 4 new faculty hires at Berkeley's Center for Computational Biology; an institute recruiting 24 postdoctoral fellows plus 4 research investigators; and BioJupyter, an open-source collaborative platform for biomedical discovery.
- Focus: biology-grounded computational methods to uncover disease mechanisms and translate findings into diagnostics and therapies.
- Postdoc applications due Nov 1, 2026.
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