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领域 医疗保健。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，尽管确实需要独立研究和开发信息学工具，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。我们提出了一个博士后(6个职位)和博士后(6个职位)相结合的研究培训计划，以培养研究人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有价值的贡献者。 密苏里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)将在信息学理论和方法论方面提供强大的基础培训，建立在生物和计算科学的基础上，并培养研究人员担任领导角色，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很强的历史，但最近实施了一项 通过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有能力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。墨尔本大学信息学研究所的成立汇聚了来自校园的生物医学信息学研究人员，充分整合了计算机科学与健康管理和信息学两个强大系的师资资源，并提供了一个利用优秀资源的架构。MUII将管理信息学博士项目，以及多学科信息学研究人员和研究实习生。

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.