Yana Bromberg

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Yana Bromberg
Awards ISCB Fellow (2025)
Scientific career
Institutions Emory University
Thesis Prediction and analysis of effects of non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms on (product) protein function [1]  (2006)
Doctoral advisor Burkhard Rost [2]

Yana Bromberg is a Ukrainian computational biologist and professor of bioinformatics at Emory University. [3]

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Early life and education

Bromberg was born in Ukraine and moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1992, aged 11. [2] Bromberg graduated with a BA in biology and a BEng in computer science from Stony Brook University in 2001. She later gained an MPhil (2004) and PhD (2007) in biomedical informatics from Columbia University. [3] Her thesis, on predicting the effects of SNPs on protein function, was supervised by Burkhard Rost.

Career and research

Bromberg's research interests include protein function prediction and artificial intelligence. [3]

Awards and honours

Bromberg was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2016. [4] In 2025, Bromberg was named by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as an ISCB Fellow. [5] [6]

References

  1. "Yana Bromberg CV" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 Grosholz, Ella (23 March 2020). "Bromberg Yana". TUM Community. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Bromberg, Yana. "Yana Bromberg". BrombergLab. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  4. "Bioinformaticist Yana Bromberg Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award : Newsroom". sebsnjaesnews.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  5. "Emory computational biologist Yana Bromberg named ISCB Fellow | Emory University | Atlanta GA". news.emory.edu. Retrieved 21 July 2025.
  6. "March 11, 2025: ISCB Announces the 2025 Class of Fellows". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 21 July 2025.