Mihaela Zavolan is a system biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.

In 2003, Mihaela Zavolan was appointed Professor of Computational and Systems Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel.

[3] These 22 nucleotides long RNA molecules regulate the expression of protein coding genes, thereby controlling cell differentiation, metabolism and immune responses.

Through the development of high-throughput experimental methods and computational analyses, Zavolan has contributed to the discovery of many miRNAs in various organisms ranging from viruses to humans.

[5] Recently, her group used CLIP binding site data to infer a biophysical model of miRNA-target interaction, which can be used to predict the strength between of interactions between miRNAs and their targets on mRNAs and long non-coding RNA.