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  • Informatics award highlights research in cancer algorithms

    Informatics award highlights research in cancer algorithms John Osborne, Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine at the Informatics Institute, recently received a notice of award for a U24 supplement to develop a cancer algorithm predicting the severity of cancer recurrence in patients. The work will build on previously funded work to identify recurrence retrospectively in UAB cancer patients using structured EHR data and clinical text.

  • Amid global ChatGPT obsession, UAB conference examines AI’s role in advancing health care and research

    Amid global ChatGPT obsession, UAB conference examines AI’s role in advancing health care and research Experts at ATTIS 2023 shared reports from the front lines, including how they are using ChatGPT in their labs, the need for regulation and why this is a “tremendous time” for health care.

  • Informatics Hosts Session at GLBIO Conference

    Informatics Hosts Session at GLBIO Conference Jake Chen, Ph.D., Chief Bioinformatics Officer of the UAB Informatics Institute, served as the session chair of Representational Learning in Genome Biology and Precision Medicine during the Great Lakes Bioinformatics (GLBIO) Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The conference was held from May 15th-18th at McGill University, and was organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium for the purpose of hosting a forum to discuss research findings and methods. GLBIO’s primary goal was to provide a platform of establishing networking opportunities and joint relationships as it relates to computational approaches to biology. Dr. Chen’s session aimed to bring various perspectives from researchers and trainees to establish discussions reconsidering how to use artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) power more efficiently for a better disease biology understanding. Some of the topics discussed included:Characterizing and reducing data noises from different omics platforms for AI/ML applications? Characterizing and reducing data noises from different omics platforms for AI/ML applications Identifying data pre-processing techniques that will assist in normalizing, combining, and comparing multi-omics results from different experimental conditions Identifying ways to balance knowledge-guided and knowledge-agnostic approaches in the development of AI/ML predictive models Inferring the cellular states and their dynamics, along with multi-scale causal network knowledge using AI/ML[…]

  • Adjunct Faculty Member Receives Award

    Adjunct Faculty Member Receives Award Sooryanarayana Varambally, Ph.D., MBA, professor in the Department of Pathology's Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology and adjunct faculty at the Informatics Institute, was one of the 16 faculty members who were named the winners of the 2023 Dean's Excellence Awards for Faculty. The award recognizes individuals nominated by their colleagues for significant acheivements in mentorship, research, teaching, and fostering diversity within the Heersink School of Medicine.  Dr. Varambally was awarded the senior faculty 2023 Dean's Excellence Award in Research, and his research focuses on identifying therapeutic targets in various solid tumors along with progression and metastasis. For more information about Dr. Varambally and his award, please click here. 

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