Biomedical Informatics Resource (BMIR)

The Biomedical Informatics Resource (BMIR) provides informatics services to investigators and conducts original informatics research in the basic and applied translational domains to develop methods and software to understand and to address the information needs of clinical investigators, clinical study participants, and clinical research coordinators with regards to clinical trial recruitment, clinical data access, and interdisciplinary team science.

Services

BMIR provides support through:

 

Leadership

  • Chunhua Weng, PhD

    • Co-Director; Professor of Biomedical Informatics

  • Soumitra Sengupta, PhD

    • Co-Director; Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at CUIMC

  • Karthik Natarajan, PhD

    • Co-Director; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at CUIMC

  • Aristidis Floratos, PhD

    • Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics at CUIMC; Executive Research Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

  • Peter A. Sims, PhD

    • Director, Columbia Single Cell Analysis Core; Director, Systems Biology Graduate Studies

  • Amritha Menon

    • BRIDGE Technology Manager

Technical Staff

  • Jauhyun Kim, PhD

    • Post-Doc Research Scientist

  • Jianhua Li, MD

    • Clinical Data Navigator

  • Siddiq Mohamed

    • Programmer Analyst

  • Kawthar Muhammad

    • Data Manager

  • Yat So

    • Programmer Analyst

  • Sylvia Trembowelski

    • Senior Programmer

  • Alex Zolotnikov

    • User Services Consultant

Faculty Collaborators

Suzanne R. Bakken, RN, DNSc

Andrea Califano, PhD

Olena Mamykina, PhD