MU Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 生物医学信息学跨越了生命科学的许多领域中必不可少的研究空间， 健康护理在这一领域对训练有素的研究科学家的需求正在爆炸式增长，尽管独立研究和信息学工具开发是真实的需求，但也越来越重视跨学科研究，其中生物医学信息学家发挥着核心作用。我们提出了一个综合的博士前（6个职位）和博士后（6个职位）研究培训计划，准备研究员成为学术和研究生物医学信息学社区的领导者和跨学科生物医学研究问题的宝贵贡献者。 密苏里州大学生物医学信息学研究培训（BIRT）项目的目标是- 哥伦比亚大学（MU）提供信息学理论和方法的基础培训，建立在生物和计算科学的基础上，并准备研究人员承担领导角色，致力于生命科学，医疗保健，生物信息学和计算生物学的重要问题。 MU在生物医学信息学研究培训方面有着悠久的历史，但随着最近一项 计划扩大信息学资源，我们的校园研究社区现在比以往任何时候都更好地定位于成为生物医学信息学研究培训的领导者，并进一步加强生命科学和医疗保健研究。MU信息学研究所（MUM）的创建汇集了来自校园的生物医学信息学研究人员，充分整合了两个强大部门的教师资源，计算机科学和健康管理与信息学，并提供了一个利用优秀资源的结构。MUII将管理信息学博士课程，以及多学科信息学研究教师和研究实习生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biomedical informatics spans a research space essential in a number of areas of life sciences and healthcare. The demand for well-trained research scientists in this area is exploding, although there is real need for independent research and informatics tool development, there is also an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary research, where biomedical informaticians play a central role. We propose a combined predoctoral (6 positions) and post-doctoral (6 positions) research training program that prepares research fellows to become leaders in the academic and research biomedical informatics community and valuable contributors to interdisciplinary biomedical research problems. The goal of the biomedical informatics research training (BIRT) program at the University of Missouri- Columbia (MU) is to provide strong foundational training in informatics theory and methodology, build upon the fundamentals of biological and computational sciences, and prepare research fellows to assume leadership roles working on important problems in life scienes, healthcare, bioinformatics, and computational biology. MU has a strong history of biomedical informatics research training, but with implementaion of a recent planned expansion of informatics resources, our campus research community is now better positioned than ever before to be leaders in biomedical informatics research training and further strengthen life sciences and healthcare research. The creation of the MU Informatics Institute (MUM) brings together biomedical informatics researchers from the campus, fully integrates faculty resources of 2 strong departments, Computer Science and Health Management and Informatics, and provides a structure for leveraging outstanding resources. The MUII will manage the PhD in Informatics program, as well as multidiscipliriary informatics research faculty and research trainees.