Participants

These are persons specifically selected, at the early career level, who are seeking to engage with new, multidisciplinary teams to take on interesting, data-driven challenges in modern biomedicine. We consider advanced post-doctoral fellows, who have a job waiting for them to be eligible. Such folks are the life-blood of a Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab – they bring ideas, data, creativity, enthusiasm, and team spirit to the workshop. Participants are those, coming from biomedical or data science research, who are interested in collaboration and Team Science.

Mentors

A team of mentors is comprised of people with complimentary skill sets – those more senior investigators who are scientifically established in their own right and who are able to pass on wisdom and insight to the next generation of investigator. They bring their experience, encouragement, and support for the benefit of the Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab participants. Mentors meet with the teams as they are forming to provide feedback, guidance, and direction. They do not control the teams – they merely orient them, reinforcing the positive aspects of potential team projects while asking clarifying questions about areas in need of improvement. The mentors are a vital element to each and every Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab.

Facilitators

The facilitators are a combination or tour guides, cruise directors, and ring masters for the Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab. They run the day-to-day agenda, coordinate our activities, and bring their own positive attitudes to bear on all things we hope to achieve, during the online microlabs as well as at the in-person event.

Provocateurs

At various times during the Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab it is important to be challenged, pushed, encouraged, and disrupted. Provocateurs are domain experts who give short but disruptive talks, seeking to expand the bounds of the thinking of Participants to help them envision new directions they haven’t considered. Our past Provocateurs have been inventors, entrepreneurs, astronauts, microbiologists, and neurogeneticists. Each has the goal to throw you off balance but in a good way so that when you recover your footing, it makes you see problems in a new light.

Stakeholders

Many other contributors to our Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab can be grouped together as stakeholders in the success of the lab and of you. These include NIH and NSF program officials, foundation representatives, Team Science specialists, research ethics specialists, and others seeking to observe our activities. In a special presentation, program officials and foundation representatives will describe how grant applications might be pursued. Nightly sessions on best practices in ethical and reproducible science are provided by experts in research standards. Still other federal government and research leaders take a vested interest in the outcomes of our workshops. You never know who might drop by.

Leadership Team

The UVA-based leadership team provides overall direction, coordination, and assistance throughout each Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab. Their efforts are more than just to support the 5-day in-person event. Rather, theirs is a year-long level of participation, planning, and promotion. These are your number one points of contact before, during, and after each event.

Seminar Speakers

Experts in the biomedical and data science fields that are chosen by the Leadership Team to share their knowledge on the Biomedical Data Science Innovation Lab annual theme or other topics relevant to “big data” biomedicine through the Biomedical Data Science Seminar Series.

Seminar Viewers