Eligibility 

US citizens or permanent residents are eligible for Fellowship support, and all doctoral students are eligible for Traineeship slots. The BIDS-TP student dissertation project must be focused on developing new methods, building reliable tools, or addressing important medical and health applications using informatics, computational, and data science techniques. Advisors/co-mentors must have active research, development, and education programs that are funded to advance biomedical, informatics, and data sciences, and must complete the MICHR Mentoring program, if not already completed. 

BIDS-TP Executive Committee will review all nominees for eligibility and make offers and funding decisions based on candidates’ qualifications, mentors’ research, and match with the BIDS-TP goals. We strongly encourage nominations of trainees who are members of traditionally underserved groups, as well as applications of students with disabilities. 

Email questions/inquiries to: 

• Julia Eussen (jneussen@med.umich.edu)  

• Program Team (bids-program@umich.edu).  

Nominations

Eligibility: US citizens or permanent residents are eligible for Fellowship support, and all doctoral students are eligible for Traineeship slots. The BIDS-TP student dissertation project must be focused on developing new methods, building reliable tools, or addressing important medical and health applications using informatics, computational, and data science techniques. Advisors/co-mentors must have active research, development, and education programs that are funded to advance biomedical, informatics, and data sciences, and must complete the MICHR Mentoring program, if not already completed. 

Nominating Process

Nomination Process: BIDS-TP Executive Committee will review all nominations and select Fellows (funded) and Trainees (independently funded) by April/May. BIDS-TP faculty mentors may nominate pre-candidate doctoral students by submitting the following information by the due date.

1. Nomination Form (see below).

2. Letters of nomination from student mentor(s) summarizing the applicant’s qualifications, background, and aspirations, along with any information pertinent to the decision-making process. Describe the relevance to biomedical informatics, computational health analytics, data science, and the nature of the research dissertation problem, if known. Nomination letters are limited to 2 pages. 

   • New Incoming UM Doctoral Students

     • For incoming direct Bioinformatics students, request a nomination from the BGP Directors, Burmeister/Sartor.

     • For incoming PIBS Bioinformatics students – eligible for Fellow/Trainee appointments that may transition to Fellowships next year, request a nomination from BGP Directors, Burmeister/Sartor.

     • For all other incoming students (e.g., Engineering, Data Science) – eligible for Fellow/Trainee appointments that may transition to Fellowships next year, request a nomination from your specific graduate program Director (and inform MIDAS Program Director, Dinov).

     • For Current/Continuing UM Doctoral Students, please coordinate nomination with your main advisor and select a potential BIDS-TP Faculty Mentor as co-advisor.

3. Nominee statement of research (limited to 1 page) including an abstract, references, career goals, and relevance to BIDS-TP. No more than 1 figure and 1 table are allowed. Focus the statement on biomedical informatics and data science. Explicitly indicate student commitment to complete all BIDS-TP requirements.

4. CV/Biosketch of the nominee (2-page limit).

5. Complete copy of the nominee’s Rackham graduate application, if available.

Note 

Faculty sponsors who are not yet members of DCMB, CCMB or MIDAS should submit their applications to join CCMB and/or MIDAS at the same time of submitting the BIDS-TP student nomination. All BIDS-TP Faculty Mentors commit to active participation in BIDS-TP activities.