Congratulations to Seonggyun Han, a Dept. of Biomedical Informatics PhD candidate who co-authored two papers recently. He is first author of “Alternative Splicing Regulation of Low-Frequency Genetic Variants in Exon...
The National Academy of Medicine awarded a “Catalyst Phase of the National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity Global Competition” to Drs. Ramkiran Gouripeddi and Julio Facelli for their project that...
In February 2021, Dr. Yves Lussier joined our department as our new chair. He is excited to lead our department and feels like it’s an opportunity of a lifetime to...
Congratulations to one of our faculty members, Aaron Quinlan, PhD, whose team was just awarded a grant through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) for Essential Open Source Software.
Congratulations to Seonggyun Han, a Dept. of Biomedical Informatics PhD candidate who is the first author on a paper just published in the Nature Journal.
We’re proud to announce the winners of the Reed M. Gardner Award for Faculty Excellence for 2020 and 2021. This award was created by the students in the Departments of...
Congratulations to Professor Karen Eilbeck, (DBMI), and Professor Simon Fisher (Internal Medicine) who were recently awarded an NIDDK T32 Training Grant – “Computational Approaches to Diabetes & Metabolism” for the...
Congratulations to Adriana Payan-Medina, a chemical engineering student in her junior year and a biomedical informatics research assistant who was awarded an NIH National Library of Medicine fellowship.
The Digital Healthcare Research Program at AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) recently highlighted Dr. Ken Kawamoto’s research project, “Decision Precision+: Increasing Lung Cancer Screening for At-Risk Patients”, which...
Dr. Shobha Phansalkar, an alumnus of our department (Class of 2007) and the current Chair of our department’s Alumni Committee, recently joined Innovaccer’s leadership team as the Senior Director of...
A special issue of the International Journal of Medical Informatics on “Leveraging Data and Information Systems on the Sustainable Development Goals” was recently published, DBMI faculty Damian Borbolla (Assistant Professor)...
A new NLM-funded video series profiles unique career paths of graduates of biomedical informatics programs across the United States, including DBMI alumnus Lance Pflieger, PhD’17.
Francine Stirling loves to get creative. Whether it’s finding time to read a good book while staying busy as a mom to three children or juggling full-time work with the...
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Reed M. Gardner, a noted national leader in the field of biomedical informatics and Emeritus Professor and previous...
University of Utah has a National Library of Medicine T15 Training Grant postdoctoral position open as of January 2021. As one of the largest biomedical informatics training programs in the...
Congratulations to Dr. Bobolla who was accepted into the 2020-2021American Medical Association (AMA) Health Systems Science Scholars Program. This is a new effort of the AMA to provide select medical...
Each year our alumni vote on a graduate who has made an exceptional impact in the areas we value in our department: relevance, relationships, and leadership. This year’s recipient is...
When Yogesh Reddy was growing up in Mumbai, India, his idea of achieving success was becoming a professional soccer player. As he got older, Reddy’s natural drive and athleticism served...
On September 17, 2020 the Department of Biomedical Informatics hosted the 2nd Annual IAB Strategic Planning Virtual Retreat. In 2019 we met in person and many of the recommendations provided...