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To understand a protein’s structure is to understand its function, says structural and chemical biologist Jens Meiler, PhD, distinguished research professor of Chemistry. It can take a PhD student up to five sleep-deprived years to determine the structure of a single protein, and of the 20,000 human proteins, only about 17% are considered to have had their structure determined experimentally with very high accuracy.

A new age of human data research has arrived, says computer scientist Paul Harris, PhD, professor of Biomedical Informatics and director of the Office of Research Informatics.

Dan Roden, MD, Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will receive the PMWC 2023 Pioneer Award Jan. 27 during this year’s Precision Medicine World Conference. Approximately 2,500 people from more than 30 countries are registered for the three-day meeting, to be held in Santa Clara, California.

Senior Program Manager - Toufeeq Ahmed Toufeeq Ahmed, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor in VUMC's Department of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Education Informatics at Vanderbilt School of Medicine, is looking for Senior Program Manager. 

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2023 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Special Seminar Title: "Using Raw Audit Logs to Measure Physician Workload, Cognitive Burden and Burnout"

Are you interested in a career in computer science, healthcare research, artificial intelligence, machine learning and more? Then join Vanderbilt University's MS/PhD Program in Biomedical Informatics!  Final Applications are due January 15, 2023. Apply here!

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the December 2022 DBMI Digest here. Each DBMI Digest features department & faculty announcements, awards & appointments, educational & HR updates, funding opportunities and more. Each issue also includes a profile of one of our faculty, staff, postdocs and students. 

Vanderbilt’s Colin Walsh, MD, MA, was recently elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) class of 2022. The 14 new fellows were inducted into the ACMI at the 2022 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, held in Washington, DC.

BioVU, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s biobank, has reached another milestone — deep-freeze storage of more than 300,000 biological samples. Launched in 2007, BioVU is the world’s largest DNA biobank based at a single academic institution.