The following is a sample curriculum.

Date Time Topic Lecturer
Week 1
Monday 9:30–10:30am Orientation & Breakfast  
  11:00am–12:00pm

SIBMI OVERVIEW
New Frontiers in Computational Biomedicine

 Isaac Kohane
  Afternoon/evening Meetings with research mentors  
Tuesday Meetings with research mentors
Wednesday 10:00–11:00am

TOOLS & TECH
Creating a Search Engine for Environmental Exposures in Disease Risk

 Chirag Patel
  11:30am–12:30pm

CASE STUDY
Bowel Disease: Using EHR for Discovery Research

 Ashwin Ananthakrishnan
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
  2:30–7:00pm

OPTIONAL

HILS/GSAS Summer Gathering & Graduate School Fair
Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Panel Discussion
2:30–3:45pm
Graduate School Fair
4:00–5:00pm
HILS Summer Gathering Event
5:00–7:00pm

 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS) program 
Thursday Research
Friday Holiday—HMS Closed
Week 2
Monday Holiday—HMS Closed
Tuesday 9:30–10:30am

TOOLS & TECH
Visualization of Biomedical Data

 Nils Gehlenborg
  11:00am–12:00pm TOOLS & TECH
Last Mile Digital Medicine in the Age of COVID		 William Gordon
Wednesday Research
Thursday 9:30–10:30am

CASE STUDY
Informatics for Global Health

 Maha Farhat
  11:00am–12:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Predicting Risk of Polygenic Disease

 Shamil Sunyaev
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
Friday Research
Week 3
Monday Research
Tuesday 9:30–10:30am

TOOLS & TECH
Artificial Intelligence in Pathology Diagnosis

 

 Kun-Hsing Yu
  11:00am–12:00pm

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
An Overview of the All of Us Research Program, 
Sync for Science, and 
the Allure of Returning Health-Related Information to Participants

 David Kreda
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
  1:00–2:00pm Break  
  2:00–3:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Deep Learning 101

 Andrew Beam
Wednesday Research
Thursday 9:30–10:30am

CASE STUDY
Actionable Use of Provider Data

 Gabriel Brat
  11:00am–12:00pm

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Health Data Access for Consumers in USA: Technology, Regulation, and Trends

 Josh Mandel
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
Friday Holiday—HMS Closed
Week 4      
Monday Holiday—HMS Closed
Tuesday 9:30am–10:30am

TOOLS & TECH
NLP Applications in Healthcare

 Hadi Amiri
  11:00am–12:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Sequencing Cancer Genomes

 Peter Park
Wednesday Research
Thursday 11:00am–12:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Towards a Self-Learning Healthcare System

 Tianxi Cai
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
Friday Research
Week 5      
Monday Research
Tuesday 9:30–10:30am

CASE STUDY
Autism

 Isaac Kohane
  11:00am–12:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Reproducibility and Machine Learning

 Raj Manrai
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
  1:00–2:00pm Break  
  2:00–3:00pm

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Contextualizing Digital Transformation

 David Shaywitz
Wednesday Research
Thursday 9:30–10:30am

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Imaging, Sharing & Programming Genomes & Cells

 George Church
  11:00am–12:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Medical AI: a coordinated dance of algorithms, data, and interfaces

 Pranav Rajpurkar
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
Friday Research
Week 6      
Monday Research
Tuesday 9:30–10:30am TBD Robert Gentleman
  11:00am–1:00pm

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Precision Medicine: Theory and Practice

 Matt Might
Wednesday Research
Thursday 9:30–10:30am

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Biomarkers or Biomarkup?
How Important Biological Indicators Can Help Health and be Manipulated by Money

 Isaac Kohane
 

11:00am–2:00pm

(Lunch delivered at 12:00pm)

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Trainee Workshop
 

 Shilpa Korbren, Yasha Eketefai, Shandu Mulaudzi, Mark Keller, Luke Sagars, Payal Chandak
Friday Research
Week 7      
Monday Research
Tuesday 8:30–9:30am

TOOLS & TECH
Supporting Genomics in the Practice of Medicine

 Heidi Rehm
  11:00am–12:00pm

CASE STUDY
Data Science to Understand Disease Heterogeneity through Industry Collaborations

 Brett Beaulieu-Jones
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
  1:00–2:00pm Break  
  2:00–3:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Studying Complex Tissues and Disease with Single-Cell Genomics

 Peter Kharchenko
Wednesday Research
Thursday 9:30–10:30am Career Counseling Isaac Kohane
 

11:00am–2:00pm

(Lunch delivered at 12:00pm)

TOOLS & TECH
Introduction to Cloud Computing for Biomedical Research

 Paul Avillach
Friday Research
Week 8
Monday Research
Tuesday 9:30–10:30am

COGNOSCENTI
CONVERSATIONS
Mining Social Media for Healthcare Discovery

 John Brownstein
  11:00am–12:00pm

CASE STUDY
Perspectives on Cancer Precision Medicine

 Todd Golub
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
  1:00–2:00pm Break  
  2:00–3:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Meta-Analysis

 Soumya Raychaudhuri
Wednesday Research
  2:00–3:00pm

CASE STUDY
Informatics and Precision Psychiatry

 Jordan Smoller
Thursday 9:30–10:30am

CASE STUDY
Applications of Big Data and Bioinformatics for Rheumatoid Arthritis

 Katherine Liao
  11:00am–12:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Machine Learning for Biomedical Networks

 Dr. Marinka Zitnik
  12:00–1:00pm Lunch  
  1:00–2:00pm Break  
  2:00–3:00pm

TOOLS & TECH
Capturing patient voices to define desirable health outcomes

 Raheel Sayeed
Friday Research
Week 9      
Monday 9:00am–2:00pm Presentation Rehearsal  
  Research
Tuesday Research
Wednesday 9:00am–2:15pm PRESENTATIONS  
  2:15–3:30pm CELEBRATION LUNCH  
  6:00–9:00pm CELEBRATION & CLOSING DINNER  
Thursday Finish working with mentor
Friday Last day: no class