Biomedical Web Applications with R/Python Shiny

2 credits, Spring 1 Semester

Web-based applications are a great way of building an interface on top of your biomedical coding projects. It allows the community easier access to your work by eliminating the need for setting up a coding environment and instead using an app to interact with your data, analyses or pipelines. 

This course will teach you Shiny, a powerful framework built for R and Python that lets you create custom, web-based applications from within your coding scripts. You will learn how to build apps from scratch or convert existing scripts into a Shiny application and host them in various ways.

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Faculty

PJ Van Camp

PJ Van Camp, MD, PhD

Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics

Associate Director of Education Innovation

Spring 1 2026

Room: TBA

Meeting Times: Thursdays, 9:00am - 11:00am

First Class Meeting: Thursday, January 29,  2026  

Final Class Meeting: Thursday, March 12, 2026

Cross-Registration

Registration for HMS courses is not available until January. Students who are not in the Master of Medical Sciences in Biomedical Informatics program who wish to cross-register for this course must submit a petition in my.harvard that summarizes their interest in the course and how they have satisfied the prerequisites. 

Cross-reg petitions will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis on a date TBD in January 2026. Students can and should submit petitions before this date, but they will not be approved ahead of time. 

For questions regarding cross-registration, please contact mbi@hms.harvard.edu with the subject line "BMI 709 cross-registration".