# Biomedical Informatics Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $510,731

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS AND CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT 
The key elements of a successful program in clinical and translational research include web-based 
communication and coordination, research data accumulation and management, secure and privacy-sensitive 
storage with indexed retrieval, robust computational and analytical tools, expert bioinformatics and 
computational consultants and collaborators, access to statewide electronic medical and health records, along 
with rapid and effective dissemination of information. These form the basis of our vision for a proposed Center 
for Biomedical Informatics that would be critical for the effective operation of the proposed Rhode Island Center 
for Clinical and Translational Sciences (RI-CCTS). The proposed Center for Biomedical Informatics will provide 
leadership, organization and integration of biomedical informatics expertise within the participating institutions 
and create critically important structural and functional biomedical informatic linkages between clinical and 
basic science investigators. The Center will provide instruction on the implementation and application of new 
contemporary resources and tools for carrying out population based epidemiological studies, generating 
clinical surveys and mining new patient databases. It will support research strategies that require the use of 
“big data” approaches to integrate output from new “omics” platforms with the distinctive patient cohorts in our 
affiliated hospital network. Our goal is to enable the broad application of high performance computing and 
cyberinfrastructure in the most effective utilization of our unique population based resources with the aim of 
benefitting our local population and addressing issues of health disparity in Rhode Island and other IDeA 
jurisdictions. This multi-institutional Center will create and support professional development opportunities for 
investigators from wide-ranging disciplines to learn about biomedical informatics. It will facilitate investigators 
learning about and establishing collaborations with colleagues at their own or different institutions, allowing 
them to explore new and more powerful computational approaches to clinical and translational research. The 
Center for Biomedical Informatics will also enable broad access to the large clinical and translational research 
networks supported through the IDeA-CTR consortium. Lastly, the Center will harness contemporary, 
computerized resources to track and evaluate the use of limited valuable resources across the RI-CCTS 
network. To achieve these goals, the Specific Aims are: 1) Create a sustainable, team-based, multidisciplinary 
Center for Biomedical Informatics to provide the cyberinfrastructure needed to enable effective collaborative 
clinical and translational research while leveraging all available existing electronic resources. 2) Promote and 
advance professional development in biomedical informatics through work...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9957180
- **Project number:** 5U54GM115677-05
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** INDRA N SARKAR
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $510,731
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-08-09

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9957180

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9957180, Biomedical Informatics Core (5U54GM115677-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9957180. Licensed CC0.

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