# San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)

> **NIH NIH T15** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2021 · $723,333

## Abstract

Abstract
The San Diego Biomedical informatics Education and Research (SABER) training program was
awarded an NLM training grant in the summer of 2012. In this renewal proposal, we describe
our accomplishments for the past 3.75 years and our vision for the next five years.
The SABER training program includes core faculty from the Health System Department of
Biomedical Informatics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), as well as multiple
faculty across UCSD and from San Diego State University, a Hispanic-serving research
university that has a joint doctoral program in Public Health with UCSD.
Our pre-doctoral trainees enroll in competitive doctoral programs in Bioinformatics and Systems
Biology, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, or Biomedical Sciences. Trainees complete a
foundational curriculum in biomedical informatics (BMI), taught by our core faculty, in addition to
core curricula from their respective degree programs. All of our trainees have been meeting
their academic milestones and our first PhD cohort will soon graduate. Our post-doctoral
trainees enroll in a master’s program (Computer Science or Advanced Sciences), in addition to
completing our foundational BMI curriculum. These trainees are embedded in projects at the
medical center that help them contextualize the research methods they learn through
coursework. All of our short-term trainees are under-represented minorities in science and
participate in various research projects leading to presentations and publications.
Some highlights of our training have been the high productivity of our trainees, who are pursuing
innovative research in a wide spectrum of informatics areas of specialization, from translational
bioinformatics to clinical research informatics to healthcare informatics. Additionally, the
proportion of women (52%) and under-represented minorities (37%) is high in our overall trainee
pool. We have filled all of our 15 slots (9 pre- and 6 postdoctoral) with highly qualified
candidates from diverse educational and cultural backgrounds, who have already produced first-
author publications in highly selective journals and conferences.
We are introducing a specialization in Environmental Exposures Informatics, for which we
engaged an outstanding group of faculty from UCSD and San Diego State University. This
addition will complement our strengths in translational bioinformatics, clinical research
informatics, and healthcare informatics.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10208967
- **Project number:** 5T15LM011271-10
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO
- **Activity code:** T15 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $723,333
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-07-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10208967

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10208967, San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER) (5T15LM011271-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10208967. Licensed CC0.

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