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Professor Abba Gumel

New Study Charts Paths to End Cervical Cancer

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Attendees at the MCEDBioTech Connect Event

UM-IHC Showcases Artificial Intelligence Expertise in Montgomery County

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Speakers at the first-ever UM-IHC Continuing Medical Education course on October 28 for healthcare practitioners focused on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

UM-IHC Launches First Continuing Medical Education Course in Artificial Intelligence

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University of Maryland-led BCORE initiative gets major boost from opioid restitution funds

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Esa Davis Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

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Mark Gladwin, Brad Maron and Steven Davis

Maron Named Melvin Sharoky, MD Professor

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Open Philanthropy Awards $336K to Map the Impact of Scientific Funding Cuts

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Analyzing the Links Between Food Deserts and Diabetes

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NIH Funds First-of-its-Kind Center to Study Resilience and Aging

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Nate Apathy

NIH Award Funds Research to Integrate Electronic Health Records

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Generative AI Uncovers Undetected Bird Flu Exposure Risks in Maryland Emergency Departments

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UM-IHC Co-Director Adam Porter

UM-IHC Co-Executive Director Adam Porter Reflects on a Year of Innovation and Impact at UM-IHC

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Phages (green) are shown engulfed by alveolar macrophages (cytoskeleton in pink and nucleus in blue).

Study Advances Understanding of Immune System’s Crucial Role in Phage Therapy

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Maryland Lieutenant Governor Aruna Miller tries VR goggles at a UM-IHC event

Lt. Governor Says ‘It’s Going to Take a Partnership … to Elevate the Future’

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UM-IHC researchers participate in Invent the Future Expo

UM-IHC Participated in Invent the Future Expo

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University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing: Our Mission

The UM-IHC unites world-class computer science, clinical expertise, health data, and academic resources to solve complex problems in medicine and healthcare delivery.
We emphasize partnerships with federal agencies, the wider biotech community, and academic institutions to exert a transformative impact on the health and human disease landscape, from the personalized to the population level.

Featured Researcher: Pratyush Tiwary, PhD

Dr. Tiwary is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology at UMCP, where he holds the Millard and Lee Alexander Professorship in Chemical Physics. He is also a professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and leads therapeutic drug discovery research at the UM-IHC.

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Pratyush Tiwary

Research Centers

The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing conducts interdisciplinary research to advance health care through advanced computing and data analysis.

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Applied AI

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Bioinformatics

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Immersive Visualization

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Real-World Evidence and Adaptive Clinical Trials

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Population Health

Small molecule bound to S100 protein, implicated in Alzheimer's Disease

Therapeutic Drug Discovery