SysMIC held an inter-DTP Workshop in Newcastle yesterday (19th April 2018).

29 SysMIC participants were in attendance from Newcastle, Liverpool, Durham, EastBio, Manchester, Dundee and DiMeN DTPs.

The next SysMIC Module 1 course will start on Monday 16th April 2018.

There are still some places available, so if you are interested in joining, please contact us at: sysmic-team@sysmic.ac.uk, before 28th March 2018.

Dr Gerold Baier presented at a SysMIC Workshop in Nottingham.

The Clinician Coders Programme is based on the successful SysMIC online course in maths and computing for biomedical scientists.

The Clinician Coders programme will enable clinical academics to effectively use data science to complement their existing research. The programme combines e-learning in basic informatics with face-to-face problem solving sessions to cement learning and foster multidisciplinary working.

All of the course materials are based on real clinical research data used with permission from academic and private sector partners. We aim to inspire and excite students by using real data and solving real problems.

This course will also help participants to:

• Understand the basics of data science and coding;
• Apply learning to research;
• Separate yourself from the pack in your next fellowship application;
• Enhance existing collaborations or start new ones;
• Align with funders’ interests in data science.

The latest SysMIC Module 1 cohort started in November 2017 with 193 participants

Participants came from 4 separate Medical Research Councils, 11 separate Doctoral Training Partnerships, The Francis Crick Institute and independent participants.

The next SysMIC Module 1 cohort will start in the spring.  Please register your interest or send any queries to us at sysmic-team@sysmic.ac.uk

20 Clinicians coding

Gerold Baier, Colbi Benari, Pouria Hadjbagheri and Felipe Fouto

Network Medicine: A Clinician Coders Workshop at UCL
18 September 2017

ParoXysmic and the UCL Academic Careers Office ran a Clinician Coders workshop on Network Medicine for 20 UCL clinical academic trainees on 18 September 2017. The Workshop combined web-based training materials on a bespoke eLearning Environment and covered MATLAB programming with face-to-face problem solving sesions.

Gerold Baier will be presenting at the HEA Annual Conference (STEM Strand Programme) on 6th July 2017.

The talk entitled ‘Training of Higher Education eTeachers in the 21st Century will be presented from 2:30-3pm.

More information can be found at: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/downloads/hea_annual_conference_2017_full_programme_8.pdf

Another successful SysMIC Workshop was held in Newcastle on Monday 22nd May with participants attending from EastBio DTP, Newcastle, Liverpool and Durham DTP and IBioIC.

More information about the workshop can be found at: https://sysmic.ac.uk/workshop-newcastle2017/

Advancing Algorithms of Disease: SysMIC interacting with The Francis Crick Institute