Benefits

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP ($38,500)
SMALL BUSINESS SPONSORSHIP ($20,000)

Core Program Benefits

BMIR Publications

Each affiliate receives a complimentary subscription to all dissertations, accepted journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports published by BMIR faculty and students, plus résumés of graduating students. Our goal is to keep all affiliates abreast of the current research trends at BMIR.

BMIR Short Courses

The Protégé Short Course provides an in-depth introduction to the field of ontology engineering using Protégé. It is a four-day course with an optional pre-course session that’s designed for beginners who need to get started with Protégé installation and orientation. The short course is taught primarily by faculty and senior staff from BMIR and is attended by participants from both industry and academia. It is held in facilities located on the Stanford campus. Each affiliate may send, without paying tuition, a limited number of representatives annually to attend the Protégé short course. The affiliate is responsible for all travel and lodging expenses.

We also offer an intensive 2-day introduction to developing OWL ontologies and Semantic Web applications using Protégé-OWL. More information on both courses can be found here

Colloquia

Each week during the academic year, we organize seminars and colloquia presented by students, staff, and visitors to our laboratory. Affiliates are always welcome to attend these lectures.

Program for Industrial Researchers

Affiliates may send one industrial researcher to study and engage in research at the BMIR laboratory for 3 weeks. The industrial researcher and the timing of the visit will be mutually selected by the affiliate and the BMIR. The industrial researcher will receive a Stanford University Visiting identification card, which grants him or her campus privileges. The visitor will have a shared office, and will be able to audit courses, attend research seminars, and use the university library and computer facilities, as well as recreational facilities. A temporary computer account on a local machine will be provided.

The Exclusive Custom Workshop, below, is provided as an alternative to the Industrial Researcher visit.

Exclusive Custom Workshop at Stanford

As an alternative to the industrial researcher program, we offer to develop a special 1-day workshop for each affiliate on any topic within our expertise. The workshop will be geared to a single company’s needs, and will be presented privately unless other arrangements are made.
View example of an exclusive custom workshop

Bi-monthly Video Conferences

For this benefit option, industrial affiliates would contact us in advance to outline a research topic of interest. We will then arrange for relevant BMIR and/or BMIR-affiliated research experts to be available for consultation and discussion via video conference (or teleconference).

Access to Faculty and Student Research Interests

We provide to each affiliate a database of faculty and student research projects and interests. The database can be used to match the affiliate’s interest with current BMIR projects and research directions. This database is updated on a quarterly basis. We also identify the faculty members and students who have the greatest expertise in any area of interest requested by an affiliate.

Listing on the BMIR Affiliates Web Page

Affiliates have the option of a link from the BMIR Affiliates web site to their corporate web page. We would welcome similar pointers back to the BMIR site in return.

Auditing positions for a representative in Core BMI Courses

The following courses comprise the core BMI coursework. An Affiliate member may audit one position in each course.

BIOMEDIN210 : Introduction to Biomedical Informatics: Fundamental Methods.

Issues in the modeling, design, and implementation of computational systems for use in biomedicine. Topics: basic knowledge representation, controlled terminologies in medicine and biological science, fundamental algorithms, information dissemination and retrieval, knowledge acquisition, and ontologies. Emphasis is on the principles of modeling data and knowledge in biomedicine and on translation of resulting models into useful automated systems. Recommended: understanding of the basic principles of object-oriented systems at the level of CS 107.

BIOMEDIN211: Introduction to Clinical Systems

Focus is on information systems and decision-support technology. System requirements, data, standards, algorithms, and implementation issues. Prerequisite: BIOMEDIN 210.

BIOMEDIN 212. Biomedical Informatics Project Course

Hands-on software building. Students conceive, design, specify, implement, evaluate, and report on a software project in the domain of biomedicine. Focus is on pragmatics of creating written proposals, providing status reports, and preparing final reports. Introductory-level aspects of software engineering such as version control, UML, and testing. Prerequisites: BIOMEDIN 210 or 214, or consent of instructor; CS 106.

BIOMEDIN 214: Representations and Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology

Topics: algorithms for alignment of biological sequences and structures, computing with strings, phylogenetic tree construction, hidden Markov models, computing with networks of genes, basic structural computations on proteins, protein structure prediction, protein threading techniques, homology modeling, molecular dynamics and energy minimization, statistical analysis of 3D biological data, integration of data sources, knowledge representation and controlled terminologies for molecular biology, graphical display of biological data, and genetic algorithms and programming applied to biological problems. Prerequisites: programming skills and matrix algebra.

Additional courses taught by BMI faculty may be available for auditing. Please contact Rosalind Ravasio for more information.

Optional Program Benefits (Available to Corporate Sponsors Only)

Additional Industrial Researcher visit

Exclusive Custom Workshop

If so requested, we will develop a special 1- or 2- day workshop for an affiliate on any topic within our expertise. Details of content, costs, and location will be negotiated on an individual basis. This workshop may be chosen as an additional optional program benefit if the 1-day custom workshop is requested rather than the 1-month industrial researcher option within the core program benefits.

Company Visit

At an affiliate’s request, a member of the BMIR senior staff will visit that affiliate for 1 day per year. Generally, the day will include a 1-hour lecture on a topic of mutual interest, followed by presentation and discussion of issues important to the company. Travel costs are an additional expense.