Pathogens, genetics, anatomy, environmental factors—how can we understand the complex mechanisms of human diseases? Jason Lu, PhD has dedicated his professional life to answering this question. With thousands of known diseases and an infinite combination of factors, it is a
What do you get when you combine a shark tank event and a hackathon with a room full of undergraduate summer research students? A Sharkathon – a competition that challenges teams of students to develop an application and then pitch
A research team from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a grant to identify new subtypes of cancer through variations in gene splicing. The group, led by Nathan Salomonis, PhD of the Division of Biomedical Informatics, will apply novel computational
The Biomedical Informatics Practicum is a project-oriented course that uses state-of-the-art techniques and current data sets to improve healthcare. For Biomedical Informatics PhD students, it serves as a cornerstone experience in the transition from coursework to hands-on research. Scientists begin their
Krishna Roskin, PhD, a new informaticist and immunobiologist at Cincinnati Children’s, is pairing computational methods with immunobiology to improve our understanding of the human immune system. One of his big ideas is to aggregate immune system data into an atlas
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report in Genetics in Medicine two new computational methods to aid in computerized diagnosis of rare genetic diseases. Both methods are now freely available in a web application called GDDP, Genetic Disease Diagnosis
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s are aggregating medical data to provide youth in foster care and their caregivers with better access to health records—and the chance to take control of their own well-being. For foster care youth, successful health outcomes depend
Danny T.Y. Wu, an expert on optimizing electronic health records, recently joined the biomedical informatics team at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor. Wu received both his PhD and master’s degree from the University of Michigan School of Information. Wu’s research
The opportunities available to young informaticians are endless—and they just keep growing. For undergraduate student Paul Murdock, an informatics intern and junior in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Medical Sciences program, opportunity recently brought him to the AMIA
Matthew Weirauch, PhD, a computational biologist with Cincinnati Children’s Center for Autoimmune and Genomic Etiology and the Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Developmental Biology, discusses here the informatics effort behind a new study published in Nature Genetics. In the study,