SMD-GIDS Medical Research Forum |
The Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Goergen Institute for Data Science (GIDS) and Health Science Center for Computational Innovation (HSCCI) are hosting a Virtual Medical Research Forum for the purpose of bringing together GIDS data science students with SMD researchers with data analytics needs.
The Goergen Institute for Data Science trains Bachelor’s and Masters’ degree students who are interested in working on biomedical and/or clinical research projects. Ideal projects can come from any area of research or discipline but should have a large data-intensive component.
Students can consider:
- Independent Research (unpaid, 3-6 credits, training oriented) or research trainee (unpaid, voluntary/no credit, training oriented)
- Capstone/Practicum (unpaid, team of 4 students for a semester-long project as a requirement of graduation; co-advised by data science instructor)
- Internship (paid, summer, deliverable oriented)
- Co-op (paid, 6 months, deliverable oriented)
- Post graduate employment (paid, short-term or long term)
Feedback from last year’s forum:
“Last year's research forum was instrumental in connecting two data science undergraduates together with UR and URMC students and faculty collaborating on a multidisciplinary project focusing on the economic outcomes of families raising children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This work has generated a manuscript and the project is now moving into the next phase. The involvement of our data science undergraduates, who brought a number of skills in statistics, R programming, and Tableau, has been critical for this project's success." - Alex Paciorkowski, MD
“There are several GIDS undergraduate students who have been working with us on tobacco product related social media data analysis. All of them have published lead-author or coauthored papers with my research team. In addition, one undergraduate student working with us was able to obtained an Undergraduate Summer Research Funding Award from University of Rochester.” - Dongmei Li, PhD
If you have a project that you would like to have considered, please submit a Project Description that includes a one-page abstract, aims or description of your proposed project. Please make sure to include a brief description of the data set and type of project you anticipate a student would work on. Project descriptions are due Friday, January 15, 2021 by COB. You will be notified by January 22nd if your project is accepted.
Project requests will be evaluated by members of the CTSI Informatics Branch and Goergen Institute for Data Science for merit and feasibility. The projects selected to move forward will be asked to provide a Zoom recording of a 3-slide in 3-minutes presentation describing your project by Friday, January 29, 2021. The recordings will be posted to a UR Box folder for students to review in advance. We will be hosting a question and answer session regarding your project on Friday, February 5, 2021 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm via Zoom. This is a networking meeting of the investigators and the GIDS students. Students and investigators will have the opportunity to interact and to discuss the projects together over Zoom.
Questions about projects can be directed to Alex_Paciorkowski@urmc.rochester.edu and logistic/administrative questions to Tracie_Norman@urmc.rochester.edu.