NCIBI/ RCMI CC Partnership on Translational Bioinformatics
In 2009, The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) at the University of Michigan and RCMI CC partnered to establish an annual NCIBI/RCMI Workshop on Translational Bioinformatics to provide a platform to identify mechanisms for building and strengthening research collaborations on integrative biomedical informatics between RCMI and NCIBI researchers.


UMICH "TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES" SERIES
With great success resulting from the collaborations of NCIBI and RCMI CC Translational Informatics workshops, the University of Michigan continues to work with RCMI CC . In 2011, UMich reached out to RCMI CC for the purpose of collaboratively promoting the UMICH Tools and Technologies Series. The weekly seminars, highlighting a tool or technology that is under development or currently being used by UMich/NCIBI researchers, supports continued knowledge sharing with the Network’s informaticians and researchers. These seminars are streamed live via Adobe Connect and are recorded for future viewing.


The purpose of the workshops are to provide RCMI investigators training in the use of NCIBI tools and resources for translational research, and to build research relationships with the goal of expanding informatics resources for the study of health disparities.
More than 60 investigators from RCMI Network have participated, presenting papers and posters resulting from collaborations with researchers from UMich and other majority research institutions. scientific resources and expertise for team science, study management and performance monitoring to Connect with RCMI CC .
For more information, visit http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/tb_workshop_archive.html.


University of Michigan NCIBI/ RCMI CC Partnership At-a-Glance
Partnership Formation:
Officially formed in 2008 with leadership of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research Network ( RCMI CC ) and implemented through its Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Working Group
Partnership Goal:
To present RCMI CC investigators with biomedical computing and informatics resources and tools and associated training pertinent to advancing their studies, strengthening their collaborative initiatives and inciting additional research ideas
Successful leveraging: subcontracts with RCMI CC Community
Jackson State University’s Translational Research Education Training Series (TRETS) and targeted infusion of NCIBI research outputs into classroom lectures;
Hunter College/Jackson State University/NCIBI Seminar Video Conferences;
NCIBI/ RCMI CC Tools Workshop at RCMI International Symposia on Health Disparities
RCMI CC Data Coordinating Center, “Computing and Data Infrastructure to support NCIBI development and growing user community” , to provide RCMI CC community with access and use of the integrated TRANCHE and Proteome Commons.org mirror sites.
Partnership Outcomes:
More than 200 RCMI CC Investigators have participated in training and workshops on NCIBI tools and technologies
Approximately 150 presentations and posters from RCMI CC researchers delivered at NCIBI-sponsored workshops, trainings and conferences