BETHESDA, Md., March 3 -- The U.
S. National Library of Medicine issued the following news:
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) invites applications from US educational institutions that wish to provide training for research careers in biomedical informatics. Since 1975, NLM has been the leading federal sponsor of research training in biomedical informatics.
Awards will be made for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral education in a range of informatics areas including:
* Health care/clinical informatics: Applications of informatics principles and methods to direct patient care, such as advanced clinical decision support systems and multimedia electronic health records, to the provision of informational support to health care consumers. Special tracks might be proposed for nursing informatics, dental informatics, imaging informatics, or other appropriate clinical themes.
* Translational bioinformatics: Applications of informatics principles and methods to support 'bench to bedside to practice' translational research, such as genome-phenome relationships, pharmacogenomics, or personalized medicine. Special tracks might be proposed in health effects of environmental factors, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), or other similar areas.
* Clinical research informatics: Applications of informatics principles and methods to support basic clinical trials and comparative effectiveness research. Special tracks might be proposed in areas such as biostatistics, in-silico trials, merging and mining large disparate data sets that mix images, text and data.
* Public health informatics: Applications of informatics principles and methods to build integrated resources for health services research, for decision support in public health agencies, to support regional or global health research, or syndromic surveillance. Special tracks might be proposed in areas such as health literacy, information design for consumers, health effects of climate change.
Organizations funded by NLM to do this training are responsible for defining an appropriately rigorous curriculum, selecting a diverse cadre of high-quality trainees, and providing research mentoring training in the responsible conduct of research and other resources that help trainees transition to successful research careers.
For details about the solicitation including deadline, scope and levels of support available, please see the funding opportunity announcement: NLM Institutional Training Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics (T-15) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-11-001.html. For any query with respect to this article or any other content requirement, please contact Editor at htsyndication@hindustantimes.com
