Principal Investigator Isaac Kohane
Project Website http://www.chip.org/
The Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) is a multidisciplinary applied research program at Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences and Technology. CHIP focuses in two areas: bioinformatics, and clinical and public health informatics. The faculty is diverse, including physicians with additional training in information science, computer scientists with expertise in the biomedical sciences, mathematicians, and epidemiologists. CHIP encourages collaboration and provides shared resources to develop innovative information technologies with the goal of both enhancing biomedical research and improving patient care. CHIP also serves as the bioinformatics core for several national genomics investigations.
CHIPS brings together people from many different disciplines and provides excellent opportunities for collaborative work. The faculty includes physicians with expertise in the information sciences as well as computer scientists and mathematicians with interest in the biological sciences.
Research at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program spans a wide range of problems in bioinformatics and clinical informatics. The goal is to make significant contribution to biomedical research and patient care by understanding and utilizing various types of genomic and proteomic data and by developing innovative hardware and software technologies.