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Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
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In December 2007 the BICB Academic Planning Committee consisting of faculty and administrators from the University of Minnesota Rochester, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and the collaborating institutions (Mayo Clinic, IBM, and Hormel Institute) submitted a proposal to the University of Minnesota Graduate School to establish new M.S. and Ph.D. graduate programs in biomedical informatics and computational biology. Approval by the University of Minnesota Graduate School and Board of Regents is anticipated by summer 2008.
The programmatic focus of the proposed graduate program is in the area of biomedical informatics and computational biology. This field is at the interface of quantitative sciences, medicine, and biology, and thus by its nature, highly interdisciplinary. The proposed graduate program will primarily train graduate students in the development and applications of computational methods and to work in interdisciplinary teams of life scientists and computational scientists. The program will offer industrial and clinical internships and training in business leadership, technology management, and ethics to prepare students for the workplace. In addition, the program is committed to developing a mentoring program for students and junior faculty that will serve as a model for interdisciplinary graduate education. To address the needs of the rapidly increasing user group that includes graduate students in the life and health sciences, physical and chemical sciences, and engineering, a minor will be offered.
The next academic program goal is the development of University of Minnesota/Mayo Clinic Graduate School joint degrees in biomedical informatics and computational biology.
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