About CCMB
About CCMB
The U-M Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (CCMB), Brian D. Athey, Ph.D. and Gilbert S. Omenn, M.D., Ph.D., Directors, is a campus-wide interdisciplinary academic center with over 100 affiliated faculty members.
Faculty membership is diverse, and there is a strong representation from the fields of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics. This is complemented by faculty members who have biological and biomedical expertise who want to better apply cutting-edge biomedical informatics to their work.
CCMB is the U-M institutional leader in Biomedical Informatics, which encompasses the continuum of bioinformatics to clinical informatics to health informatics.
The CCMB has three major components:
Bioinformatics Graduate Program
The Bioinformatics Graduate Program
(BGP) is the academic component of CCMB. The BGP is led by Dr. Margit Burmeister, Professor of Psychiatry & Human Genetics and Dr. Daniel M Burns, Jr., Professor of Mathematics. Multidisciplinary faculty support the robust curriculum and research opportunities for the students.
A faculty handbook outlines the responsibilities of faculty mentoring Bioinformatics Ph.D. students as they proceed through their student career. As always, specific questions and commentary can be addressed to the Program directors.
Download Faculty HandbookInterdisciplinary Research Program
The Interdisciplinary Research Program (IDR) provides a coherent collaborative context for the success of existing interdisciplinary research programs and also assists new projects through a pilot grant program. Core interests are data integration and modeling from genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic studies.
Collaborative Computing & Data Unit
The Collaborative Computing & Data Unit (CCDU) supports the CCMB Cores with a computational biology-focused research computing environment for collaboration tools, database design and administration, training and licensing of specialized software, and help with computing capabilities.
