Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Professor Dr. Donald Johann Jr. has received a $245,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to purchase three Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instruments, specifically a NextSeq2000 and two iSeq-100 desk top NGS systems. Johann is also coauthor of a new paper published in Nature Scientific Data – “Ultra-deep sequencing […]
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DBMI Researcher Receives Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Grant
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) Associate Professor Horacio Gomez-Acevedo, Ph.D., has been selected to receive one of five grants from the Arkansas Breast Cancer Research Program for 2022-23. Dr. Gomez-Acevedo’s project title is “Framework for Breast Tumor Shape and Implications for Staging and Deep Learning Segmentation of MRIs.” Dr. Gomez-Acevedo, who is also director for […]
NIH Funds UAMS Effort to Close Patient Outcome Gaps Across U.S. Level 1 and 2 Trauma Centers
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) researchers are hoping to help close wide gaps in trauma patient outcomes across the United States by harnessing new data to help trauma center leaders improve outcomes. Led by Mathias Brochhausen, Ph.D., and Kevin Sexton, M.D., the researchers will test which organizational features affect patient outcomes at 230 Level 1 and Level […]
Clinical Informatics Fellowship Alumna’s Research on EHR Upgrades Published
Research by UAMS Clinical Informatics Fellowship alumna Lori Wong, M.D., MPH, on the impact of electronic health record (EHR) system upgrades on physicians has been published in the October issue of Applied Clinical Informatics Open. Dr. Wong is the first author on the paper, “The Impact of an Organization-Wide Electronic Health Record (EHR) System Upgrade […]
KL2 Meeting Sparks DBMI Faculty Collaboration, Three Publications
A routine monthly meeting hosted by the Translational Research Institute (TRI), a comment and a question were the genesis for three publications this year by two TRI KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Program scholars from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). Maryam Garza, Ph.D., MPH, MMCi, and Tremaine Williams, Ed.D., who became KL2 scholars in […]
DBMI Faculty Mentor Students Through Cancer Research Internship
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) faculty worked with medical students interested in cancer research through the Health Partnership in Cancer Research (PCAR) summer research program. The program is funded by a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health and is led by Dr. Thomas Kelly, Professor of Pathology and Associate Director of Cancer Research Training […]
DBMI Faculty Named Editor of Microbiology Spectrum
Se-Ran Jun, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), has been selected to serve as an editor for Microbiology Spectrum. Microbiology Spectrum is a publication of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and publishes research from all domains of basic, applied, and clinical microbial sciences. It has an impact factor of […]
DBMI Secondary Faculty Co-Investigator on $6 Million Project Testing Toxins in Water
Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) secondary faculty Linda Larson-Prior, Ph.D., is a co-investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded effort to develop advanced, inexpensive devices to detect toxins in water and people. Dr. Larson-Prior’s primary appointments are in the College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences. UAMS’ $908,952 portion […]
UAMS Researchers Find Changes in Monkeypox Genome That May Explain Its Recent Rapid Spread
The rapid spread of monkeypox is unlike the virus’ past outbreaks and may be a result of genetic mutations identified by Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) researchers. Led by UAMS DBMI’s David Ussery, Ph.D., the team published its findings this month in the Journal of Applied Microbiology. The team compared the genomes of the 2022 virus […]
Video Celebrates Progress in European AI Cancer Research Project
The UAMS Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) is the only U.S. institution participating in a $10 million European grant project that aims to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for cancer care. There is a reason for that. “UAMS is widely recognized as the very best in the field of cancer imaging data […]