News and Awards

[Jan 2024] Meng officially joined us as a postdoc!
[Aug 2023] Congratulations to Jordan who has been selected to receive the ASN-Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 4 year AMFDP career development award!
[Aug 2023] Abby’s JAMIA paper entitled “The Suitability of UMLS and SNOMED-CT for Encoding Outcome Concepts.” is accepted as a new Research and Application paper!
[July 2023] Our lab is awarded a new R01 for developing informatics methods to support continuous re-interpretation of genomic variants!
[July 2023] Gongbo officially joined us as a postdoc!
[June 2023] Betina is one of the 24 recipients selected across the country to be sponsored to participate in the 2023 Alzheimer's Association Interdisciplinary Summer Research Institute to be held in Chicago, IL August 11-14, 2023. This is an immersive, no-cost opportunity for early career researchers in psychosocial care and public health to launch a career in dementia science and accelerate breakthroughs in the field. During the five-day program, experts will offer diverse perspectives on groundbreaking research through group sessions and individual mentoring.
[June 2023] Betina received a grant from Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center for using electronic health records data for phenotyping ADRD diseases.
[May 2023] Congratulations to Betina, who has been selected as a Research Education Scholar at the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. More details about the program can be found here!
[Sep 2022] Check out the news on our work: OARD Uses Data-Driven Approach To Fill Knowledge Gaps Around Rare Disease Research
[Aug 2022] Dr. Chunhua Weng was invited as a presenter to the JAMIA Journal Club Webinar!
[Jul 2022] Congratulations to Nicole for being promoted to a tenure Associate Professor at at Oregon Health & Science University!
[Jul 2022] Congratulations to Yingcheng for being an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro!
[Jun 2022] Dr. Chunhua Weng gave a keynote at The 10th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)!
[Jun 2022] Dr. Chunhua Weng's Quest to Minimize Bias in Clinical Research
[Mar 2022] Congratulations to Jimmy on earning his PhD degree!
[Aug 2021] Congratulations to Tian on earning her PhD degree!
[Feb 2021] Congratulations to Jaehyun for being an an assistant professor at Jeonbuk National University in Korea!
[Dec 2020] Check out the news on our work: Clinical Trial Eligibility Optimization Could Aid Recruitment, Add Robustness To COVID-19 Trials
[Dec 2019] Dr. Chunhua Weng Leads Efforts To Uncover, Bridge Knowledge Gaps In Clinical Research

Last Updated: 03/2024