About Stanford
Stanford is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university with an international reputation as an outstanding educational and research institution. Among the faculty members are 18 Nobel laureates and many others who have achieved wide academic distinction.The university provides superb academic and athletic facilities and is perennially ranked one of the top five universities in the United States if not higher.
About BioMedical InFormatics at Stanford
The Biomedical Informatics (BMI) program was founded in 1982 and broadly encompasses bioinformatics and clinical informatics. The program is one of the oldest and most illustrious in the United States. Graduates have gone on to become distinguished faculty at top universities and medical schools, or industry leaders at major corporations.
BMI offers diverse programs for students interested in education in informatics spanning the full range of biomedicine including bioinformatics and clinical informatics. The program's focus is on the development of novel methodologies in informatics applied to the biomedical domain. Biomedical informatics focuses on the flow of information from developments in basic biology to the clinical environment. Clinical imaging and visualization enables customized surgical procedures tailored to individual patient anatomy while molecular medicine leads to individualized drug therapies. Simulation of patients or of molecules supports learning and investigation prior to actual therapies or laboratory experiments. Advances in genomic science lead to the need to manage and understand biological data using informatics methods and sustain the future of individualized medicine. Automated literature search engines comb the scientific literature and databases and extract relevant information for each individual. Multimedia supports health care decision making by delivering discoveries in molecular medicine to the patient's bedside. Electronic communication extends social networks for patient support and has already led to new consumer dynamics in medicine. From DNA sequences to medical imaging to patient histories, biomedical informatics develops methods and systems to manage, analyze and understand the flow of data from the biosciences, the physician to the patient.
This work supported by the NIH/Fogarty International Center under grant D43 TW00699