Biomedical Informatics Research
The Division of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) at Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation has both an academic and a service mission.
We develop and maintain systems, software and other IT infrastructure to support a growing number of basic, clinical and translational research programs at Cincinnati Children’s and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Our research in bioinformatics and medical informatics advances the understanding of comparative/functional genomics, systems biology, proteomics and natural language processing. And we educate the next generation of researchers through our graduate student training in the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the University of Cincinnati.
Current Research
Through both collaborative and independent research, our faculty focus on a number of investigational areas. Bruce Aronow, PhD, and Anil Jegga, DV, work toward the discovery and analysis of gene regulatory networks. John Pestian, PhD, and Imre Solti, MD, PhD, study natural language processing of clinical information. Jun Ma, PhD, studies modeling patterns of gene expression during embryogenesis, and Jason Lu, PhD, studies patterns of gene expression and protein interactions in metabolic pathways of human pathogens. Michael Wagner, PhD, conducts genome-wide association studies of diseases such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, while Keith Marsolo, PhD, investigates data warehousing and data mining, and Michal Kouril, PhD investigates high-performance computing.
