Senior bioinformatics student Melissa Mercer recently participated in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)’s Summer Research Academy, an undergraduate research program that provides summer scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) students.

Congratulations to professor Tiago Colicchio, Ph.D., MBA, who recently welcomed a new postdoctoral fellow, Jakir Masud, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Jin Chen, Ph.D., who will serve as the vice chair of Education for the UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Chen will manage the educational programs for the department while coordinating recruitment and admissions with the rest of the department faculty.

John D. Osborne, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, had multiple papers accepted as poster presentations for the upcoming November AMIA Symposium in San Francisco.

Distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, James Cimino, MD, will be the closing keynote speaker at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium, taking place on Nov. 9-13 in San Francisco, California.

Director of Clinical Research Informatics Matthew Wyatt and his Research Data Group team are now able to obtain previously unavailable variables in electronic health records through the use of text analytics. The technology and tools that allow this capability are only used within the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, and have been used in various research efforts.

Professor of Microbiology Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D., will be part of a research team studying T and B tissue-resident memory cells, known as TRM and BRM cells, as part of a five-year, $18.5 million U19 grant awarded to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

James Cimino, M.D., treasurer of the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Board of Directors, attended their most recent meeting along with the first day of AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

James Cimino, M.D., distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, recently attended the annual meeting of the Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) on May 14, 2024.

Assistant professor of Medicine John D. Osborne, Ph.D., will be providing contributions to the R21 grant “Comprehensive Assessment of Delirium Risk due to Medications.” 

John D. Osborne, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Department of Medicine, provided an outstanding presentation as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Training Program (CTSTP). 

Members of the Bridge2Ai Consortium attended the inaugural NIH Bridge2AI All-Hands Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. 

The 8^th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS) was held at the Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium on May 3, 2024. This year’s symposium, with the theme “Drug Discovery in AI,” focused on the relationship between cutting-edge drug discovery and groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence.

Members of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC) provided presentations and talks at the 20^th edition of the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS), one of the largest bioinformatics conferences in the country.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science is happy to announce the remaining scheduled PowerTalks for the spring semester here at UAB! We certainly hope you can join us, either in-person at the Shelby Biomedical Research Center (Room 105) or virtually. These sessions take place each Friday at 10 AM CDT, and for more information about these PowerTalks, please be sure to click the link here. 

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has been awarded a U54 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their initiative, the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE). The grant, $9.5 million over five years, will be in collaboration with the University of Colorado (CU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The U54 grant aims to modernize data sharing, integration, and innovation across the biomedical research community, while enhancing interoperability and accessibility of NIH-funded data repositories.

Lurong Pan, Ph.D., found of Ainnonence, Inc., a drug discovery firm that looked to accelerate drug discovery efforts through comprenhensive models, has joined the Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC) here at UAB. 

Assistant Professor of Medicine Tiago Colicchio, Ph.D., whose research focuses on increasing the situational awareness of clinicians through the design of electronic clinical documentation systems, joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (DBIDS) in 2017 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in biomedical informatics. Recently, he spoke about his journey to being part of UAB, his passion for electronic health records (EHR), and his overall visions as it relates to the world of informatics in the future.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (DBIDS) hosted their opening symposium at the Hilton Birmingham Hotel on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Kawasaki disease, a mysterious condition considered the leading cause of acquired heart disease among developed countries, is now the focus of a whole-genomic sequencing study that details a variety of genetic variations associated with non-responsiveness to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment. As part of this study, Chief Bioinformatics Officer Jake Chen, Ph.D. is servicing as a collaborator for this project.

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