Biomedical Informatics Training Opportunities!
The University of Pittsburgh’s Biomedical Informatics Training Program offers exciting opportunities in the applications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and biomedical informatics through a range of degree and non-degree options:
Certificate in Biomedical Informatics
Masters Degree (MS) in Biomedical Informatics (including post-doctoral MS)
Doctoral Degree (PhD) in Biomedical Informatics
MS or PhD in Intelligent Systems – Biomedical Informatics Track
MD/PhD in Biomedical Informatics
Non-degree Postdoctoral Training


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News
UPMC cancer startup with former DBMI student founder is acquired by California company
Dr. Saadawi Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer received a fellowship in the Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program and graduated with a MS in Biomedical Informatics in 2004. She was mentored by former DBMI faculty member Rebecca Jacobson, MD whom she...
University of Pittsburgh Launches Center to Reduce Global Health Disparities for Women
Pitt Health Sciences announced the launch of a new global innovation center to reduce health disparities for women -- the Vijayalakshmi Innovation Center in Women’s Health Analytics and Research (VIHAR). Housed in the School of Medicine’s Department of Biomedical...
New Grant Award – NIH U24 – Uncovering the Shared Genetic Origins of Childhood Cancer and Structural Birth Defects Through Enhanced Data Integration and Analysis with the CFDE Data Distillery Knowledge Graph
MPI Jonathan Silverstein was awarded this Common Fund Data Ecosystem U24 with Contact PI Deanne Taylor of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. See https://reporter.nih.gov/search/mImgDzp_wEG2m4HLFsv5pg/project-details/10994331
Events
DBMI Colloquium Speaker – Rachel D. Melamed – April 4, 2025
Drug repurposing integrating genetics and causal graph models of health records Rachel D. Melamed, PhD Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Center of Biomedical and Health Research in Data Sciences (CHORDS) University of Massachusetts at Lowell ...
DBMI Colloquium Speaker – Rayid Ghani – March 28, 2025
Title Pending Rayid Ghani, PhD Machine Learning Department, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University Department of Biomedical Informatics Colloquium Series – Spring 2025 - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm407a/b BAUM5607 Baum...
DBMI Colloquium Speaker – Qingyu Chen – March 21, 2025
Title Pending Qingyu Chen, PhD Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Yale School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics Colloquium Series – Spring 2025 - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm407a/b BAUM5607 Baum BlvdPittsburgh, PA 15206