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  1. Q&A features HPV researcher and new at-home test
  2. Children may face complications after COVID
  3. Researchers to study microRNA dysregulation in colorectal cancer
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Fall 2024

Building digital twin tools to investigate environmental threats to health

A new five-year, $3 million research project funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences aims to create the digital dictionary and playbook to help technology replicate the way humans experience disease.

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College Calendar

Upcoming Events

  1. Jul 14

  2. Sep 03

  3. Oct 11

  4. Oct 25

  5. Nov 05

Featured Event

HOBI Grand Rounds

April 9

Please join us in-person for HOBI Grand Rounds seminar “AI, Augmented Intelligence, At Health System Scale” presented by Vincent Liu, MD, MS, Chief Data Officer for The Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente. Lunch is provided first come, first served.

Vincent Liu, MD MSc

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Conferences for Connections

HOBI Presentations

Conferences and Meetings

Research is meant to be shared. Visit our list of conferences to see where some of our researchers have been presenting their work.

Professors and students mingled during the poster session.

HOBI Seminars

HOBI Seminars are presentations by visiting faculty, guest speakers, faculty candidates and graduate students. For recent and upcoming HOBI Grand Rounds speakers, please visit the HOBI Grand Rounds web page.

2025

  • March 12 – Pengyue Zheng, PhD, HOBI Guest Speaker presenting “Identifying drug-host interactions from real-world data.”

2023

  • June 29 – Gina T. Eubanks, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Patient and Provider Characteristics Associated with Guideline-Concordant Metabolic Screening and Monitoring Among Adults Prescribed a Second-Generation Antipsychotic”
  • May 24 – Xinsong Du, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Reproducible Computational Workflow for Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Data Processing”

2022

  • May 26 – Tianyao Huo, HOBI PhD candidate dissertation defense, “Examination of Disparities in Pediatric Lipid Screening and Management in Florida Medicaid”
  • May 24 – Satish E. Viswanath, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, “Computational Imaging for Precision Medicine: A quest for generalizable AI models”
  • April 12 – Rui Yin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, “Machine learning modeling to facilitate the precaution and diagnosis of diseases”
  • March 31 – Richard Moffitt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, “Building the National COVID Cohort Collaborative: Investigating Acute and Long-term Outcomes of COVID-19”
  • March 29 – Wei Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, “Computational Frameworks for Multi-omics Data Integration to Improve Disease Outcome Prediction”
  • March 1 – Matthew Ruppert, HOBI graduate student master’s thesis defense, “Optimization of Inpatient Level of Care Through Multi-Task Learning”

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The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics (HOBI) shares faculty news and research, including press releases, upcoming events, announcements and media coverage. If you are a member of the media, please contact Jim Harper, Marketing Manager, at (352) 627-9070 or via email, harperfish@ufl.edu.