Genetic testing has greatly improved physicians’ ability to detect potentially lethal heart anomalies among asymptomatic family members of people who suffer cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death.
DBMI and the Harvard Office of Technology Development (OTD) have joined forces to launch the Biomedical Informatics Entrepreneurs Salon (BIES), a monthly meeting to promote entrepreneurship at the convergence of biology, medicine, and computing.
The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program aims to enroll more than one million U.S. participants, who will donate health data about themselves for precision medicine research.
The first Harvard Clinical Informatics Lecture Series of 2016 is underway, having kicked off in January with Grand Rounds hosted by DBMI Chair Zak Kohane. Dr. Kohane spoke about the intersection of precision medicine with clinical informatics and operations.
The NIH Office of Data Science recently hosted an all-hands grantee meeting for the country's BD2K Centers of Excellence, during which PI Zak Kohane presented year-one highlights for PIC-SURE.
Under its new 4D Nucleome Program, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund has awarded $12.5 million over five years to the Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC) hosted at DBMI.
