Coding4Medicine

09/18/2026

INVITED TALK:
Inviting all high schoolers interested in research and/or UW Engg :
On Sunday, Sep 20, 3 pm PST over Zoom, an Invited Talk :

Data Pipelines in Bioinformatics
By Marie Andken former Interlake HS student (2025) and current UW sophormore in ECE and Coding for Medicine alum.

Marie got introduced and learned computational biology skills through the Coding for Medicine program https://hs.coding4medicine.com and then landed at Institute for Systems Biology soon after during her senior year of high school. She accomplished an exceptional amount of research work at ISB in a single year that resulted in 3 top-notch serious research publications (including first authorship). She will present her work at ISB and promises to "share advice for students interested in getting involved in research and/or engineering at UW". It is worth joining her this Sunday afternoon!
If you would like to listen to her talk and join Q&A please sign-up to obtain the Zoom link:
https://forms.gle/GoqQgReexPGqgwkY6

08/06/2026

Microbial Mysteries: Hands-on Lab course in biotech in the week of Aug 10-13
Suitable for High schoolers and Middle Schoolers interested in developing hands-on techniques in molecular biology, microscopy and working with cells. From Aug 10-13, 9.30 am-3.30 pm this will be our final lab session for summer 2026. Join with a friend and get an additonal discount on top of the end of season discount course fee! For registration visit https://hs.coding4medicine.com If you have any questions reach us [email protected]

07/12/2026

Be the Pioneer at 250 years since it began!
Calling high schoolers who would love to get their foot into the hottest topic in life sciences today: AI and Biology

Join our state of the art course:
Machine Learning and AI Concepts in Python
July 13-24, 1-3 pm PST
Online, Instructor-led

For details and registration https://hs.coding4medicine.com
Feel free to connect [email protected]

06/16/2026

High schoolers publish Salmonberry Transcriptomics on bioRxiv!
(from Coding for Life Science, a research non-profit)

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.727011v1
A group of high schoolers from the greater Seattle area along with their scientist-research mentors, passionate ex-physician and UW-Bothell professor (now at Michigan State Univ) published the gene expression of the pacific northwest native plant Salmonberrry. The students took their summer training in genomics from Coding4Medicine https://hs.coding4medicine.com
Although the crowdfunding, labwork, RNAseq and initial bioinformatic analysis was done end 2018-early 2020, the Covid pandemic interrupted the research. The final analysis and paper drafting was completed mid 2025-early June 2026 and paper was submitted to bioRxiv a week ago!
The data has been submitted to NCBI. This is true democratization of scientific research!

06/02/2026

Biotech lab program for High and Middle schoolers in summer 2026 https://hs.coding4medicine.com There are 3 hands-on laboratory courses in our 2026 summer program absolutely liked by previou students and operated at biotech research lab level:

"Microbial mysteries" for learning molecular biology techniques
"Learning Chemistry with Enzymes" for chemistry/biochemistry lab skills
and a hands-on lab course for middle schoolers only "Tinkering with DNA"
Offered end June-early Aug timeline. Bring a friend and receive a shared 10% discount.
Reach out for more questions [email protected]

05/22/2026

Announcing the winners of the Coding Gene.Us competition
Check it out https://hs.coding4medicine.com/online/Competition/25-26/index.html

We asked the students to create a high school biology lesson for the AI age, where a biology lesson has embedded computational data and analysis relevant to the bio topic chosen for the lesson.
The high schoolers did a remarkable job-both meticulous and creative!

Congratulations to the winners and to all the participants!

Summer enrichment program reshaping the learning of biology and medicine

05/01/2026

Dr Craig Venter's shotgun sequencing during the Human Genome Project (2002-3) leap-forwarded the genome sciences/genomics by eons and transformed biology into a large-scale, data-intensive information science. Biological sciences was not ready for it and is still struggling to adapt to the computational mindset en masse! Coding for Medicine seized the opportunity and we went right at the bud-training the next-generation of young scientific minds (high schoolers!) with computational skills in biology!
Dr Venter passed away yesterday April 29. A maverick scientist who never accepted the status quo!

A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races.