NLM's Short-Term Research Education Experiences to Attract Talented Students to Biomedical Informatics/Data Science Careers and Enhance Diversity  

The National Library of Medicine supports short-term training and research in biomedical informatics and data science to enhance diversity at 12 educational institutions in the United States.  This R25 program supports educational activities that encourage talented undergraduate and master's students, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further training and careers in biomedical informatics and data science. NLM seeks to develop a cadre of diverse scientists capable of leading biomedical informatics and data science research with this program.

Each R25 program offers training and education in areas related to biomedical informatics and data science that includes clinical informatics, translational informatics, public health informatics, personal health informatics, statistics, and data visualization. In addition, trainees receive extensive mentoring and skills development training that encourages them to pursue further studies and research careers.  Each training program makes special efforts to recruit trainees from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, women, and those from economically, socially, culturally, or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds.

Please contact R25 awarded institutions for questions related to trainee selection, eligibility, program specifics, and levels of support. The location of NLM R25 training institutions and contact information for awardees is provided below. For general information about NLM’s Short-term Research Education Training Programs in Bioinformatics and Data Science to Enhance Diversity, please contact: Meryl Sufian, PhD, sufianm@mail.nih.gov

NLM’s Short-term Research Education Training Programs in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Sites 

R25 Sites and Contact Information (Principal Investigator) 

• Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Metin Nafi Gurcan)
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center/Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute 
  (Megan Othus/Jennifer Bobb)
• University of Texas Arlington (Gabriela Mustata Wilson)
• University of Pittsburgh/Gallaudet University  (Richard David Boyce/Gaurav Sureshkumar Arora)
• Ohio State University (Courtney Hebert)
• Washington University (Po-Yin Yen)
• Meharry Medical College/Fisk University/Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  (Fortune Mhlanga/Lei Qian/Kim Unertl)
• Oregon Health & Science University (William R. Hersh)
• Indiana Univ-Perdue Univ at Indianapolis (Chandra Sarath Janga)
• Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Peggy Timothe)
• University of Arizona (Vignesh Subbian)
• State University of New York at Buffalo (Peter L. Elkin)