A research team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a $626,000 grant to test saracatinib (AZD0530), an experimental drug, as a new potential treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF). The grant will support further preclinical evaluation of this new
Building on its successful Teaching Fellowship program, the Biomedical Informatics (BMI) Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is rolling out three additional student award programs in the new year. The new BMI Travel Fellowship offers up
Two natural language processing (NLP) systems developed by Yizhao Ni, PhD recently finished as top performers in a national challenge hosted by Harvard Medical School and the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University. The National NLP Clinical Challenges (n2c2) took place
Our newest class of Biomedical Informatics PhD students arrived for the fall semester on August 23. These students come from all over the world, including Nigeria and China. Their backgrounds vary from biochemistry to microbiology to medicine. What they all
Danny T. Y. Wu, PhD has won a grant from the AAMI Foundation to develop and evaluate a machine learning algorithm to more accurately detect pediatric weight entry errors. The algorithm is a next step in developing a computerized medication safety
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