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Student Spotlight: Declan McKenna

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Upcoming Event: XRx Healthcare Summit

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Upcoming Event! NSF Workshop: Envisioning the Future of AI and Chemistry, September 3-4, 2026

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UM-IHC Summer Camp Challenged High School Students to a Mathematical-Medical Mashup

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Register now for the UM-IHC’s 2026 CME Program “From Data to Decisions”!

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$2M Gift Establishes Eugenia Brin Endowed Chair of Parkinson’s Disease at the UM-IHC

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Alicia Hawkins

Student Spotlight: Alicia Hawkins

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Radiology’s AI Reality Check

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Scientists Find Hidden Individuality in Viral Infections

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UM-IHC’s Bradley A. Maron Named Editor-in-Chief of Circulation, the American Heart Association’s Flagship Journal

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Professor Abba Gumel

UM-IHC’s Abba Gumel Elected to Lead the Society for Mathematical Biology

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New Clinical Support Tool Uses AI to Help Diagnose Pulmonary Hypertension

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UM-IHC’s Pratyush Tiwary Receives $902K Grant to Develop Energy-Efficient AI for Chemical Sciences

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Python Virtual Bootcamp

Upcoming Event: Free Python Virtual Bootcamp

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UM-IHC researchers at the 2026 American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions

Nine UM-IHC Researchers Present at American Diabetes Association 2026 Scientific Sessions

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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.

Student Spotlight: Declan McKenna

McKenna has been a research assistant at the UM-IHC for the past year, collaborating on a project using advanced mathematical tools to understand the behavior of measles during an outbreak with Abba Gumel, a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland who has joint appointments in the UM-IHC and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. 

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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