McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston

09/30/2025

McWilliams faculty members played a key role in the successful ex*****on of last week's Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation Informatics Mission: Unstoppable Summit.

https://sbmi.uth.edu/news/story/informatics-summit-explores-the-future-of-digital-health-care

09/25/2025

Call for Participation is now open for the Annual TMC AI Summit 2026.
📅 February 18–20, 2026
📍 NRI, Texas Medical Center – Houston, TX

We’re inviting submissions from across academia, clinical practice, and industry. Contribute your work and be part of shaping the future of AI in healthcare.

Submission Opportunities:
• Poster + Oral Presentations
• Workshops + Tutorials
• Industry Talks
• Student Research Showcases

This is your chance to share ideas, findings, and tools with a growing community focused on meaningful, data-driven innovation in medicine.

🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2025
🔗 Learn more + apply at tmc-ai-summit.org

09/24/2025

Dean Jiajie Zhang, PhD will present during our Research Seminar today, at 12 PM (CT). His presentation is titled "The Brain is Now Open Source: Building an AI-Native Health Science Institution."

💻- http://go.uth.edu/liveseminar
🏫 - McWilliams Classrooms E614 and E618 (6th floor of UCT)

09/23/2025

Degui Zhi, PhD, chair of our Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine, was quoted in a Scientific American story recently as he explores the Delphi-2M tool.

A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases

09/19/2025

On Saturday, August 30, Mr. D. Bradley McWilliams passed away peacefully at the age of 83. As a philanthropist and the namesake of our school, his legacy lives on not only here at UTHealth Houston, but throughout the Houston community.

https://sbmi.uth.edu/news/story/brad-mcwilliams-remembered-as-champion-of-innovation-community

09/19/2025

Congratulations to Drs. GQ Zhang, Hongfang Liu, and Licong Cui (l-r) on their National Institute on Aging grant.

A new $27.2 million grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, will allow researchers at UTHealth Houston to lead a national initiative using real-world data to unlock discoveries about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

The initiative, “Using Real-World Data to Derive Common Data Elements for Alzheimer’s Disease and AD-Related Dementias Research Through Ontological Innovation” (ReCARDO), will unite teams from 10 institutions: UTHealth Houston, Mayo Clinic, Rush University, University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University, University of Washington, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Florida, The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Vanderbilt University.

UTHealth Houston will serve as the central hub.

Learn how UTHealth Houston is leading a $27.2 million national initiative to unlock new data-driven discoveries in Alzheimer’s research at go.uth.edu/27MAlzheimersGrant.

09/18/2025

October 1 is the application deadline for Spring 2026 GET PHIT Internships. We encourage all eligible students to apply!

https://www.uth.edu/get-phit/internship.htm

09/16/2025

Registration is now open for the Annual TMC AI Summit 2026.

📅 February 18–20, 2026 (2.5 days)
📍 Dan & Jan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Medical Center – Houston, TX

Join researchers, clinicians, engineers, and industry leaders at the forefront of AI in healthcare and life sciences. Expect 2.5 days of:

•Cutting-edge research
•Cross-disciplinary collaboration
•Real-world applications of AI in biomedicine

🎟️ Register Today:
Professionals: $200
Students: $50

🔗 Link in bio or visit tmc-ai-summit.org and secure your spot now — space is limited!

09/15/2025

Attention UTHealth Houston Students! Don't forget that the 27th Annual Salutation event is this Thursday (Sept. 18).

Who: All UTHealth Houston students
When: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept 18
Where: Denton A. Cooley, MD and Ralph C. Cooley, DDS University Life Center, 7440 Cambridge St.
More Info: www.uth.edu:/student-affairs/student-intercouncil/salutation

09/11/2025

Today we honor the lives lost, the bravery shown, and the unity that followed. We remember, and we will never forget.

09/09/2025

UTHealth Houston's Community Action Poverty Simulator has several upcoming dates. The first of which is Sept. 17th. We encourage all students to participate and visit go.uth.edu/CAPS to signup!

09/04/2025

Join us on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 12:00 pm (CT) for a Prospective Student Information Session. Our Admissions Team will discuss the programs offered at McWilliams and answer questions about applying to our school.

Visit sbmi.uth.edu/prospective-students/admission-session.htm to register!