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Unexplored Therapeutic Opportunities in the Human Genome

A large proportion of biomedical research and the development of therapeutics is focused on a small fraction of the human genome. In a strategic effort to map the knowledge gaps around proteins encoded by the human genome and to promote the exploration of currently understudied, but potentially druggable, proteins, the US National Institutes of Health launched the Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) initiative in 2014. Read more “Unexplored Therapeutic Opportunities in the Human Genome” →

News

IDSC joins International NIH Data Commons Consortium

If you build it, the data will not only come, it will be standardized, accessible, and reusable by researchers around the world. With this in mind, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is creating its Data Commons initiative, and recently invited University of Miami investigators to contribute their expertise. “There is a big effort at the NIH now to bring biomedical research into the data science era. Data science including machine learning is all around us—like recommendation engines for shopping or movies, image and voice recognition, language translation, even the news you see on social media, and your personalized internet search results,” said Stephan Schürer, PhD, Program Director, Drug Discovery, and Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Read more “IDSC joins International NIH Data Commons Consortium” →

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Genomics meets Big Data in Illuminating the Druggable Genome

It’s part genomics*, part big data, and all about driving discoveries that could someday translate to new treatments for cancer, neurological diseases, addiction, and many other conditions, said Stephan Schürer, Ph.D., CCS Drug Discovery program director, and associate professor of molecular and cellular pharmacology at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

The NIH’s “Illuminating the Druggable Genome“ (IDG) initiative is expected to generate a lot of scientific information from several investigators at leading institutions nationwide. Schürer has been appointed to the IDG’s Resource Dissemination and Outreach Center to organize the incoming data and coordinate project resources. Read more “Genomics meets Big Data in Illuminating the Druggable Genome” →

Publications

Developing a Framework for Digital Objects in the Big…

The volume and diversity of data in biomedical research has been rapidly increasing in recent years. While such data hold significant promise for accelerating discovery, their use entails many challenges including: Read more “Developing a Framework for Digital Objects in the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Commons” →

Community Outreach

CCS Data Scholars Begins 7/5/2017

We are beyond excited to announce that the CCS Data Scholars Summer Data Immersion program has been funded by The Children’s Trust and is launching on July 5, 2017. The proposal was led by our partners at Educate Tomorrow, a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide a path to independence for at-risk, homeless, and foster youth, through education, mentoring, and life-skills programming. Read more “CCS Data Scholars Begins 7/5/2017” →

News - Archived

New Release of the LIFE Search Engine

A new version of the LIFE search engine has been released. LIFE makes it possible to search across data generated at the LINCS project. This new release includes recent data releases from the LINCS Consortium. It has improved search functionality and several new data visualization features. Read more “New Release of the LIFE Search Engine” →

Awards & Honors

CDD and IDSC receive NIH SBIR Award

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) and researchers at the Center for Computational Science of the University of Miami received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Small Business Innovation Research) SBIR Award to develop novel assay annotation technology for the CDD Vault leveraging our BioAssay Ontology (BAO). Read more “CDD and IDSC receive NIH SBIR Award” →

News - Archived

Featured Scientist C. Hendricks Brown, PhD

Dr. C. Hendricks Brown is Director of the Social Systems Informatics focus area in the Center for Computational Science, a program that he founded in 2011. He holds the rank of Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, and is Interim Director of the Prevention Science and Community Health Division in that department. Read more “Featured Scientist C. Hendricks Brown, PhD” →

Team - Social Systems Informatics

Featured Scientist Michael French, PhD

Dr. Michael French is a professor of health economics in the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences Division of Epidemiology & Population Health Sciences. Read more “Featured Scientist Michael French, PhD” →

Team - Social Systems Informatics

Featured Scientist Hilda Pantin, PhD

Dr. Hilda M. Pantin, a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has had a distinguished career in her 20 years as a faculty member for the Division of Prevention Science and Community Health. She serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Division of Epidemiology & Population Health Sciences and the Associate Director of the Prevention Division.

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