Advancing precision medicine means building and creating the informatics systems to gather, integrate, and analyze patient data at massive scales, across multiple dimensions and time points in decision making, for clinical value and utility. The scale of data our scientists sift through on each patient is massive and requires integration of bioinformatics, statistics, genetics, epidemiology, clinical medicine and public and global health reports. Working with David W. Craig, Enrique I. Velazquez-Villarreal, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., is integrating clinical and genomic data from a variety of technologies to assemble a more complete reference library in hopes of developing machine-learning tools that more rapidly help physicians access the critical decision-making datapoints they need.

Master of Science in Translational Biomedical Informatics

This program will take scientists’ knowledge of bioinformatics to the next level, enabling them to analyze, apply, and integrate the latest data tools in the laboratory. They will be able to extract information to better understand biomedical problems, and to design experiments to address those problems. In preparation for a spectrum of careers that span from research to the clinic, students will understand their critical role in working with data under a bevy of regulatory bodies. Graduates of the two-year program will be well suited to work as applied bioinformaticians within academic and clinical research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and biotechnology companies.