Institute for
Biomedical Informatics

The AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium will be held in San Francisco, November 3–7. Accepted work from IBI members will be presented as oral presentations, system demonstrations, posters, and in pre-symposium working groups.

IBI faculty members recently received two grants from the National Cancer Institute and the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to Rama Kavuluru, who has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Division of Biomedical Informatics as of July 1.

IBI faculty GQ Zhang,  Licong Cui, and Shiqiang Tao published “The National Sleep Research Resource: towards a sleep data commons” in AMIA’s flagship journal, JAMIA. In collaboration with investigators from Harvard, this article describes the design and implementation of the NSRR for integrating, accessing, and analyzing data from sleep studies.

The Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) has received a $2.6 million contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue its participation in the NCI’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program.

Congratulations to Anthony Rios for successfully defending his doctoral thesis. His advisor is Rama Kavuluru. Anthony will begin a tenure-track position at the University of Texas, San Antonio, in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security in August.