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  • National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology

    Director: Dr. G. Anthony Gorry , Rice University
    Co-Directors: Dr. Lydia Kavraki , Rice University and Dr. Jack W. Smith , UT Health

    We are pleased to announce that the NIH/National Library of Medicine has renewed the Gulf Coast Consortia/Keck Center's NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics, which is currently in its 20th year.  This program will provide research training in Healthcare Informatics, Translational Bioinformatics, Clinical Research Informatics, and Public Health Informatics to predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees across the GCC's six member institutions. Learn more in the NLM Press Release.     

    The purpose of this program is to provide cross-training at the interface between computational/mathematical sciences and biological sciences/biomedicine. When this highly successful training program began in 1992, we foresaw that computational biology would reshape medicine in important ways, and this emerging discipline was emphasized in the research experiences of our trainees. Once computational biology had a firmly established place in biomedicine, we expanded our emphasis to include biomedical informatics and broadened our reach to include translational medicine, public health, biosecurity, applied nanotechnology and computational biomedical engineering.

    This program serves the needs of trainees such as a young physician who wishes to expand her/his analytical and computational knowledge of Computer-assisted analysis, simulation and multi-dimensional imaging; a biologist who wants to develop expertise in functional genomics; or a computer scientist who wants to prepare her/himself for a research career in computational biology. Who may apply:

    US citizens or Permanent Residents (already have their "Green Card") who are predoctoral fellows (PhD students) enrolled in a PhD program, or are postdocs affiliated with the following Gulf Coast Consortia/Keck Center member institutions:     

    • Rice University 
    • Baylor College of Medicine 
    • UTHealth (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) 
    • UTMB Health (The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston)  
    • The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center  
    • University of Houston 

     
    What the NLM fellowship provides:
    Predocs:      

    • 12 month fellowship  
    • May compete for reappointment (for a total of three years) if progress is satisfactory  
    • Stipend of $22,032 per year in FY12  
    • Partial support for tuition, fees and health insurance (not fringe)  
    • Primary mentor/department is responsible for the fringe, and the remainder of the stipend, tuition and health insurance  

    Postdocs: 

    •  12 month fellowship  
    •  May compete for reappointment (for a total of two years) if progress is satisfactory  
    •  Stipend of $39,264 per year and higher in FY12 (depends on years of experience since receipt of the doctorate)  
    •  Partial support for health insurance (not fringe) and travel  
    •  Primary mentor/department is responsible for the fringe, and the remainder of the stipend and health insurance  


    How to apply:  

    • Choose two mentors from two different areas: one biomedical, one computational  
    • Both mentors must be tenure-track faculty 
    • Both mentors must be members of the NLM training faculty (see directory to search)  
    • Prepare a mentoring plan that clearly describes how the two mentors will collaborate to give the trainee training in both of their disciplines  
    • Complete and submit the required application materials (see link to application page)  


    For more information, see the link Application information and forms. Should you have further questions not covered by these web pages, please contact the NLM Training Program administrator:

    Melissa Glueck
    Keck Center Associate Director     glueck@rice.edu
    713-348-4563

    For information about the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC), other Keck Center Training Programs, and the GCC Research Consortia, please go to     GCC Home.