The University of North Carolina (UNC) is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
a beautiful and friendly college town. With three world class universities (UNC, Duke University,
and North Carolina State University), the
Research Triangle not only fosters creative cutting-edge research, but also is a great place to live.
UNC's graduate programs in Genetics and in Biostatistics are both highly rated. For example, according to the assessment conducted by
the National Research Council (NRC), research activity of our Genetics and Biostatistics Programs rank No. 5 and No. 12 respectively
(NRC Ranking). We are also very proud of our graduate program
in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), as it blends the best of both worlds
for both computational and genomic training.
Within the Genetics department, UNC faculty are leaders in the Cancer Genome Atlas (Perou, Hayes, Chiang), the ENCODE consortium (Lieb, Furey),
the Collaborative Cross (de Villena, Sullivan, Valdar), the 1000 Genomes Project (Li), and several large scale genetic studies of complex human
traits (Mohlke, Lange). Labs in close vicinity in the Department of Genetics include Mohlke lab, Sullivan lab,
Lange lab, Furey
Lab and Valdar lab.
In the department of Biostatistics, Drs. Danyu Lin, Fred Wright,
Fei Zou,
Wei Sun, and Mike Wu are
experts in developing statistical methods and computational tools for the analysis of large scale, multi-dimensional genetic data.
Research groups in the two departments cover a full spectrum of research in the genetics area from study design, data collection, method development, analysis, and
subsequent wet-lab follow-up. There are also numerous bright graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research scientists in the vicinity whom we enjoy working
with on a daily basis.
