# Biomedical Informatics Training at Stanford

> **NIH NIH T15** · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $805,675

## Abstract

Biomedical Informatics Training at Stanford
7. Project Summary/Abstract:
The opportunities for creating new methods to advance biomedical discovery are
unprecedented. Since 1982, the Stanford Biomedical Informatics (BMI) training program has
granted PhD and MS degrees to students with intensive training that prepares them for careers
in research. It now benefits from the creation of a new Department of Biomedical Data Science
at Stanford, for which it will be the primary graduate training program. The formal BMI
curriculum consists of (1) Core BMI, (2) Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics and
Engineering, (3) Ethical, Social, Legal Implications of technology, and (4) Domain biology or
medicine. The curriculum is appropriate for research training in Translational Bioinformatics
(TB, including environmental exposure informatics), Health care/clinical informatics (HC), and
Clinical Research Informatics (CR). Stanford's research milieu provides outstanding
opportunities for informatics research. We are in the 32nd year as an NLM-supported training
program, with approximately 80 current students (33 PhD, 12 research MS, 28 Co-terminal MS,
and 12 Professional (distance) MS). We have produced 150 PhD graduates and 75 MS
research graduates, more than 50% of whom have been NLM-supported. In this proposal, we
request annual support for training 11 pre-doctoral candidates (including two environmental
exposure informatics slots), 6 postdoctoral candidates, and 4 short-term diversity. We receive
more than 200 applicants per year for our PhD and MS program. We are evolving our
curriculum to respond to new opportunities in big data, statistics and machine learning, and are
focusing increasingly on individual advising and career mentorship as the diversity of
opportunities for our graduates explodes. The BMI program will continue to produce leaders in
academic and industrial biomedical informatics, and will prepare them to conduct biomedical
informatics research that advances human health.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9966032
- **Project number:** 5T15LM007033-37
- **Recipient organization:** STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** SYLVIA KATINA PLEVRITIS
- **Activity code:** T15 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $805,675
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1984-07-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9966032

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9966032, Biomedical Informatics Training at Stanford (5T15LM007033-37). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9966032. Licensed CC0.

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