Prospective Students
We offer a range of training experiences to accommodate diverse backgrounds and aspirations.
Active participation in research and development is a key element of the educational experience at Pitt DBMI.
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Learn more about our research in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.
News
Pitt’s high-performance computing upgrade signals accelerated translational research
“These large collaborative projects, which involve hundreds of investigators, utilize a unique computational architecture we’ve installed on the Dell system,” said Jonathan C. Silverstein, MD, [in Drug Discovery and Development]. See...
A Dell Technologies gift will provide Pittsburgh medical researchers with expanded computational power
Jonathan Silverstein and Kay Metis are featured in the press release regarding this major gift from Dell Technologies to support SenNet, BCRF GDH, and other research. See the linked article for details....
Former MD, PhD student Eric Strobl returns to Pitt as DBMI Faculty Member
Read about Big Data Big Opportunities featuring University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics new faculty member Eric Strobl, a former Pitt MD, PhD student (https://www.mdphd.pitt.edu) mentored by Shyam Visweswaran, MD, PhD and Greg Cooper, MD, PhD, also DBMI...
Events
DBMI Colloquium Speaker – Vikas Pejaver – March 29, 2024
Friday, March 29 – Vikas Pejaver, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, "Integrating genetic variant impact predictors into clinical variant classification", University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series From 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon EST...
DBMI Colloquium Speaker – Jeffrey Jensen – March 22, 2024
Friday, March 22 – Jeffrey Jensen, PhD, Arizonia State University, "Thoughts on evolutionary genomic inference, with illustrative examples ranging from anthropological to ecological to clinical", University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series From...
DBMI Colloquium Speaker – Gowtham Rao – March 1, 2024
Friday, March 1 – Gowtham Rao, MD, PhD, CMIO BlueCross BlueShield of SC, "The OHDSI Phenotype Development and Evaluation Framework", University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Lecture Series From 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon EST https://pitt.zoom.us/j/96324695214 -...