Holden Thorp, Ph.D., Chief Editor of Science family of journals stands alongside fellow colleague
Omenn Lectureship

The Annual Gilbert S. Omenn Lecture series features high-profile scientists discussing a variety of scientific topics and issues around bioinformatics, data science and the development of this field. 

This annual event gathers the DCMB and CCMB scientific communities while inviting a larger audience within U-M and beyond.

The series is supported by the Dr. Gilbert S. Omenn's fund.

Previous Omenn Lectures
2022
  • Holden Thorp, PhD
    Editor and Chief, Science

    Lecture: Data Science and Medicine in the Age of Open Data, Open Code, and Open Access: From Protein Structure Prediction to COVID Origins | Watch Video

  • Bradley Malin, PhD
    Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, Vanderbilt

    Lecture: Biomedical Data Science: The Hope, Hype and Promise | Watch Video

2019
  • Olga Troyanskaya, PhD
    Professor, Deputy Director of Genomics, Princeton University

    Lecture: Data-driven understanding of human disease: from AI to biological discoveries

2018
  • Atul Butte, MD, PhD
    Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF
    Director, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, UCSF
    Chief Data Scientist, University of California Health System (UC Health)

    Lecture: Translating a Trillion Points of Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease | Watch Video >

2017
  • George Poste, PhD
    Regents’ Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation at Arizona State University
    Chief Scientist Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (Casi)

    Lecture: Panomics, Informatics, Economics, Ethics and Politics: The Five Forces Shaping the Evolution of Precision Medicine | Watch Video

2015
  • David E. Shaw, PhD
    Founder, D.E. Shaw Research
    Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University
    Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia's Medical School

    Lecture: Simulating the Motion of Proteins and Drug Molecules: Implications for Science and Medicine

2014
  • Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD
    Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology
    Co-director Center for Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School
    Director of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

    Lecture: Biomedical Informatics is the New Way of Connecting Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice | Watch Video

2013
  • Leroy Hood, MD, PhD
    President of the Institute for Systems Biology

    Lecture: A Systems Approach to Disease: Dynamics and Diagnostics | Watch Video

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