UNC Receives NIH BD2K Institutional Training Grant Award
The NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative has awarded the inaugural set of BD2K institutional training grant awards, totaling $1 million in fiscal year 15. These three awards will support the overarching BD2K goal of training the biomedical workforce to fully utilize biomedical Big Data.
Big Data to Knowledge Training Program
Co-directed by Michael Kosorok, PhD and Mark Forest, PhD, this multidisciplinary predoctoral training program will unite 48 faculty mentors in eleven departments within four schools at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Trainees from the biomedical science, computer science and informatics, and the mathematics and statistics domains will be recruited.
Students will be exposed to a comprehensive suite of courses offered including a suite of newly developed six-week training modules that integrates all three domains (informatics, statistics, and biomedical) with a focus on big data. Students will have the opportunity to participate in a summer internship in either industry or in a collaborative group focused on big data.
At the end of this training program, students will be poised and equipped for the remainder of their careers to develop new methods and tools for the analysis of big data in the context of biomedical science.
More information about the BD2K Enhancing Training Institutional Training Grant awards can be found at: datascience.nih.gov.
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