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New Approach Allows Address-Level Assessments of Marylanders’ Proximity to Health Care and Hazards

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First Workshop of XRx Healthcare Summit Held at UM-IHC Headquarters

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Center for SUNSHINE to Host “Advancing Aging Resilience Through Research, Partnership, and Practice” Symposium

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New UMD-FDA Collaboration to Advance Evaluation of AI-Enabled Medical Devices

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Rising Temperatures May Push Lyme Disease Risk Westward in Maryland

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Air Pollution May Hinder Healing After Heart Failure Hospitalization in Older Adults

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Montgomery County Council Votes in Support of the UM-IHC Capital Project

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Get to Know: Dr. Katherine Goodman

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IHC Event February 26 | Inside Grant Writing: Questions, Proposals and Reviews

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NIH Awards $12.5M for Alzheimer’s Researchers to Use AI to Scour Biobank Data

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New UMD Startup Builds the ‘Picks and Shovels’ for the RNA Revolution

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Shared Pain, Shared Relief

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National Gap in Follow-up Therapy Can Erase Gains After Successful Osteoporosis Treatment

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UM-IHC Faculty Member Rozalina McCoy, MD, Chairs Committee Updating National Diabetes Guidelines

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MPower Releases 2026 Annual Brochure

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University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing: Our Mission

The UM-IHC unites world-class computer science, clinical expertise, health data, and academic resources to solve complex problems in medicine and healthcare delivery.
We emphasize partnerships with federal agencies, the wider biotech community, and academic institutions to exert a transformative impact on the health and human disease landscape, from the personalized to the population level.

Featured Researcher: Joshua Weitz, PhD

Joshua Weitz, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biology and holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Weitz studies how viruses transform human and environmental health, developing theory and computational models of viral impacts on individuals, populations, and ecosystems. His interdisciplinary work spans viral ecology, infectious disease dynamics, pandemic preparation, phage therapy, and marine systems.

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Research Centers

The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing conducts interdisciplinary research to advance health care through advanced computing and data analysis.

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Applied AI

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Bioinformatics

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Immersive Visualization

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Real-World Evidence and Adaptive Clinical Trials

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Population Health

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Therapeutic Drug Discovery