U-Michigan launches $100M big data initiative
Healthcare is one of four areas targeted by the University of Michigan's $100 million, five-year big data initiative.
The university's Data Science Initiative aims to improve personalized healthcare delivery with data sources such as DNA sequencing and EHRs to increase accuracy of patients' risk of certain diseases and improve treatments.
U-M will hire 35 new faculty members, expand the university’s research computing capacity and strengthen its data management, storage, analytics and training resources to support the initiative.
"Data science has become a fourth approach to scientific discovery, in addition to experimentation, modeling and computation," said U-M Provost Martha Pollack in an article on the school's website. "To spur innovation while providing focus, the DSI will launch challenge initiatives in four critical interdisciplinary areas that build on our existing strengths in transportation research, health sciences, learning analytics and social science research."
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