UAB Medicine’s Leadership Development Office (LDO) celebrated the graduation of the 11th cohort from the Institute for Leadership on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2025 Annual Symposium will conclude with a keynote presentation from James Cimino, M.D., distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.

The Blazer Bridge Fund encourages discovery among the UAB community by providing financial support to innovative ideas and inventions.

UAB’s SPARC center played a leading role at the 2025 BIOKDD workshop. The event featured cutting-edge AI research from UAB’s HySonLab and keynotes from leaders in data mining, highlighting BIOKDD’s ongoing impact on biomedical innovation.

T-bet expression is required for persistence of memory B cells that have rapid differentiation potential to become antibody-producing plasma cells in response to a second infection.

James J. Cimino, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, has been invited as a keynote speaker at the prestigious 20th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo 2025).

The Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium, hosted by the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, marked a key milestone this year by partnering with the Inaugural AI Nephrology Symposium. Held in the newly opened Altec/Styslinger Genomic and Data Sciences Building, this joint event was the first to take place in the state-of-the-art facility.

Each year, the Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS), hosted by the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Sciences, brings together faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and trainees from across the country to share updates and insights into bioinformatics research.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium, held November 9-13 in San Francisco, brought together thousands of leaders, researchers, and professionals in the biomedical and health informatics space to explore current and future topics in the field.

James Cimino, M.D., distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), will deliver the closing keynote address at the prestigious American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium. The event, which will be held Nov.

The UAB campus is rapidly being reimagined through numerous new construction and building renovation projects. These include projects that directly support the goals of UAB’s Forging Ahead strategic plan and Research Strategic Initiative: Growth with Purpose, which set a goal of increasing research expenditures to $1 billion, from $774.5 million in fiscal year 2023.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama has approved funding for a research grant effort led by Jin Chen, Ph.D., and John Osborne, Ph.D.

The University of Alabama (UA) System Board of Trustees unanimously approved plans for the UAB Health System to transition to a new electronic health record (EHR) platform, EPIC, for electronic health records, revenue cycle, and clinical research functions.

James Cimino, M.D., chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, attended the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Board of Regents meeting. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, DDS, Ph.D., presented NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli’s vision for the future of NIH.

Jake Chen, Ph.D., director of the Systems AI Pharmacology Research Center (SPARC), played a key role in organizing the HealthDay event at Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.

Senior bioinformatics student Melissa Mercer recently participated in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Summer Research Academy, an undergraduate program offering summer scholarships for STEM students.

Congratulations to professor Tiago Colicchio, Ph.D., MBA, who recently welcomed a new postdoctoral fellow, Jakir Masud, Ph.D.

Congratulations to Jin Chen, Ph.D., who will serve as the vice chair of Education for the UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. Chen will manage the educational programs for the department while coordinating recruitment and admissions with the rest of the department faculty.

John D. Osborne, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, had multiple papers accepted as poster presentations for the upcoming November AMIA Symposium in San Francisco.

Distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the UAB Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, James Cimino, MD, will be the closing keynote speaker at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2024 Annual Symposium, taking place on November 9-13 in San Francisco, California.

Director of Clinical Research Informatics Matthew Wyatt and his Research Data Group team are now able to obtain previously unavailable variables in electronic health records through the use of text analytics. The technology and tools that allow this capability are only used within the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and have been used in various research efforts.

Professor of Microbiology Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D., will be part of a research team studying T and B tissue-resident memory cells, known as TRM and BRM cells, as part of a five-year, $18.5 million U19 grant awarded to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

UAB’s strategic planning continues to blaze its path to improve more lives by leveraging construction projects that include new and enhanced facilities across the institution, blooming green spaces and art installations.

James Cimino, M.D., treasurer of the American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) Board of Directors, attended their most recent meeting along with the first day of AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

James Cimino, M.D., distinguished professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, recently attended the annual meeting of the Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC) on May 14, 2024.

Assistant professor of medicine John D. Osborne, Ph.D., will contribute to the R21 grant “Comprehensive Assessment of Delirium Risk due to Medications.” 

John D. Osborne, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Department of Medicine, provided a presentation as part of the Clinical and Translational Science Training Program (CTSTP). 

Members of the Bridge2Ai Consortium attended the inaugural NIH Bridge2AI All-Hands Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland. 

The 8th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS) was held at the Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium on May 3. This year’s symposium, theme was “Drug Discovery in AI,” focusing on the relationship between cutting-edge drug discovery and groundbreaking advances in artificial intelligence.

With this collaborative effort, the profile of UAB within biomedical data science and future data-driven medicine will be significantly raised on a national stage.