{"id":265217,"date":"2026-06-05T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-in-computational-biology\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:26:00","slug":"justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-in-computational-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-in-computational-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Justine and Jim Mullen \u201980 Fund RPI Projects in Computational Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-computational-biology\">Justine and Jim Mullen \u201980 Fund RPI Projects in Computational Biology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-computational-biology\">https:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-computational-biology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 15:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.rpi.edu\">news.rpi.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Justine and Jim Mullen \u201980 have generously donated to RPI in support of several research projects and a workshop in computational biology, with emphases in artificial intelligence, and quantum computing\u2014all priorities outlined in the RPI Forward strategic plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFunding computational biology research at the place where I began my education, and ultimately my life sciences career, seemed like a full circle moment \u2014 giving to an area and place where it all started for me,\u201d said Jim Mullen \u201980. \u201cJustine and I are thrilled to support research in an industry I built my career on. We hope this gift, which supports a key priority at RPI, will fuel the future of the biopharma industry and serve as a catalyst for faculty and student research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breakthroughs in fundamental science often occur at the interface of broadly different research areas. Enabling life sciences with high performance and quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning will lead to the next generation of research and training in computational biology. While RPI remains at the forefront of these significantly advancing technologies, this commitment will continue to accelerate RPI\u2019s important work in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful for the support from Jim and Justine, which will allow our faculty and students to remain at the forefront of rapidly growing fields in computational biology,\u201d said Robert Hull, Ph.D., vice president for research at RPI. \u201cIn addition to applying computational methods to biological research, these projects focus on global issues that affect humanity.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This contribution supports seven research projects and one workshop, led by eight faculty members working with six graduate students and one post-doctoral researcher. The Mullens\u2019 investment further supports the Institute\u2019s priorities in both scaling research excellence by empowering graduate student research, and in strengthening and extending education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gift from Jim and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-computational-biology\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justine and Jim Mullen \u201980 Fund RPI Projects in Computational Biology https:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/2026\/06\/05\/justine-and-jim-mullen-80-fund-rpi-projects-computational-biology Publish Date: 2026-06-05&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}