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$25 million gift to DCMB builds U-M’s leadership in health care AI

Recognizing the expanding impact on health and health care of computational medicine, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics, Gilbert S. Omenn and his wife, Martha A. Darling, have made a gift of $25 million to the Medical School’s Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics (DCMB).

With the gift, the Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics becomes the first named department at U-M and one of the first named medical school basic science departments in the nation.

Article in The Record, October 17, 2024

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