Initiatives

Internal Grant Program - the Discovery Engine

Any non-faculty individual within the department or Computational Biology BME program may submit an idea for receiving funding. The goal is to offer a protected space to implement ideas.

High-Performance Computing at UTSW - BioHPC

The department established high-performance computing infrastructure and services for powering clinical and basic science research at UT Southwestern with computational storage, tools, and softwares. We also offer a competitive BioHPC Fellowship to current PhD students and PostDocs who are BioHPC users and would like to apply computer science to their biomedical projects.

Educational Initiatives from the Department for UTSW

Nanocourses

Department faculty teach 1-2 day interactive courses on various bioinformatics softwares, tools, and analytics. All UTSW personnel are welcome to apply. We are now expanding this initiative to include courses on topics other than programming or computational biology! Propose a nanocourse OR Schedule an exploratory meeting.

The Biomedical Engineering Program - Computational Biology

This graduate program trains young scientists to leverage transdisciplinary expertise for creative solutions to biomedical research problems.

Imaging Centers

Center for Metastatic Tumor Imaging

Three department faculty in collaboration with scientists and clinicians from Harvard, CHLA, and CRI-UTSW established this Center from a CCBIR grant to push boundaries of imaging metastasis with groundbreaking customizable microscopes that can be automated with software pipelines.

UTSW-UNC Center for Cell Signaling Analysis

Two department faculty in collaboration with UNC faculty established this Center from an RM1 grant. As a major part of this grant involves dissemination of cutting edge technology, the Center hosted a Train the Trainers workshop from 9/23 to 10/5/2024. Fourteen leaders of world-class Microscopy Centers from around the nation were invited to learn about modular microscope design, sample processing-imaging, and customizable software pipelines.

U-HackMed

2018 – biomedical hackathon
2019 – second hackathon
2020 – Virtual Gap Year
2021 – hiatus due to COVID-19
2022 – NeuroChats global Journal Club (with O’Donnell Brain Institute) & Ethics in AI interest group
2023 – Komen-UTSW Breast Cancer Hackathon Challenge
2024 – UTSW AI Innovations Challenge (with Office of TechDev)