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SPARC welcomes new associate director of Digital ChemistryMarch 10, 2025The Systems Pharmacology AI Research Center (SPARC) is excited to announce a new addition to its leadership team, Sixue Zhang, Ph.D.
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Clinical informatics collaborates with nephrology through Priya Nagar, M.D., Innovation AwardsFebruary 19, 2025Jin Chen, Ph.D., vice chair for Education in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Sciences, has been awarded the Priya Nagar, M.D., Innovation Award for Kidney-Related Diseases
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Building the FutureJanuary 27, 2025The UAB campus is rapidly being reimagined through numerous new construction and building renovation projects. These include projects that directly support the goals of UAB’s Forging Ahead strategic plan and Research Strategic Initiative: Growth with Purpose, which set a goal of increasing research expenditures to $1 billion, from $774.5 million in fiscal year 2023.
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Colicchio elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics AssociationNovember 20, 2024UAB Heersink School of Medicine is delighted to announce that Tiago Colicchio, Ph.D., has been elected as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). This prestigious honor reflects his outstanding contributions and dedication to the field of medical informatics.
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Inaugural AI in Medicine and Nursing Symposium hosted at UABNovember 18, 2024The AI in Medicine and Nursing Symposium, hosted by the UAB Heersink School of Medicine, UAB Medicine, UAB School of Health Professions, UAB School of Nursing, and Maastricht University Faculty of Science and Engineering, concluded successfully, bringing together leading experts, researchers,...
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Heersink School of Medicine honors 8 faculty with Endowed Chairs and ProfessorshipsOctober 30, 2024The Heersink School of Medicine honored the achievements of eight esteemed faculty members during the Fall 2024 Endowed Chairs and Professorships Reception, held Oct. 29 at the Wallace Tumor Institute.
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Cimino to deliver closing keynote at AMIA 2024 Annual SymposiumOctober 28, 2024James Cimino, M.D., distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will deliver the closing keynote address at the prestigious American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium. The event, which will be held Nov.
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Faculty members receive funding for breast-conserving effortsOctober 15, 2024The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama has approved funding for a research grant effort led by Jin Chen, Ph.D., and John Osborne, Ph.D.
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New electronic health record platform to aid informatics researchOctober 15, 2024The University of Alabama (UA) System Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans for the UAB Health System to transition to a new electronic health record (EHR) platform, EPIC, for electronic health records, revenue cycle, and clinical research functions.
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Department chair attends NLM Board of Regents meetingSeptember 23, 2024James Cimino, M.D., chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, attended the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Board of Regents meeting. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, DDS, Ph.D., presented NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli’s vision for the future of NIH.
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SPARC director organizes international health day eventSeptember 19, 2024Jake Chen, Ph.D., director of the Systems AI Pharmacology Research Center (SPARC), played a key role in organizing the HealthDay event at Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Undergrad student excels at UAB Summer Research AcademyAugust 27, 2024Senior bioinformatics student Melissa Mercer recently participated in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Summer Research Academy, an undergraduate program offering summer scholarships for STEM students.
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Faculty member welcomes new postdoctoral fellowAugust 27, 2024Congratulations to professor Tiago Colicchio, Ph.D., MBA, who recently welcomed a new postdoctoral fellow, Jakir Masud, Ph.D.
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New vice chair of education namedAugust 27, 2024Congratulations 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.
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Faculty member's posters accepted for AMIAAugust 27, 2024John 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.
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DBIDS chair to close AMIA symposiumAugust 27, 2024Distinguished 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 November 9-13 in San Francisco, California.
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AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium highlights biomedical informatics transformative role in the future of health careJune 28, 2024The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium, held November 9-13 in San Francisco, brought together thousands of leaders, researchers, and professionals in the biomedical and health informatics space to explore current and future topics in the field.
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Research group uses text analytics for cohort developmentJune 21, 2024Director 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.
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UAB’s 12 new construction and renovation projects transforming campus, supporting strategic initiativesJune 10, 2024UAB’s strategic planning continues to blaze its path to improve more lives by leveraging construction projects that include new and enhanced facilities across the institution, blooming green spaces and art installations.
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Chen to lead new NIH Integration Center for the Common Fund Data EcosystemsApril 19, 2024With this collaborative effort, the profile of UAB within biomedical data science and future data-driven medicine will be significantly raised on a national stage.
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Informatics award highlights research in cancer algorithmsAugust 17, 2023John 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.
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Memory B cell marker predicts long-lived antibody response to flu vaccineMarch 22, 2023These effector memory B cells appear poised for a rapid serum antibody response upon secondary challenge one year later, and evidence shows that the cells in this subset differ from all previously described memory B cell subsets.
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UAB aims to boost use of artificial intelligence in biomedical researchSeptember 13, 2022The UAB projects will investigate was to improve and increase the use of artificial intelligence in biomedical research.
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Looking at Heersink’s four new research focus areas, Part 1: D-TECHAugust 3, 2022Heersink School of Medicine faculty and leadership recently identified four new research focus areas that will help inform the future direction of research at our Academic Medical Center. Heersink communications is highlighting each area and exploring what it means for our future.
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$100 million in contributions to transform UAB School of MedicineSeptember 28, 2021Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.
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Investment in UAB genomic research offers significant dividendsDecember 3, 2020The Altec Styslinger Genomic Medicine and Data Sciences Building will help cement UAB’s place as a leading research institution in genomic and precision medicine.