By ABBY BIESMAN
The Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM), founded in 2005, recently created the nation’s first computational medicine (CM) minor. The program is designed to improve healthcare solutions with quantitative and computational data.
The minor is a collaboration between the Hopkins School of Medicine and the Whiting School of Engineering.
Joshua Vogelstein, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), differentiates between computational medicine and BME.
“Any JHU undergrad may minor in CM, including both students majoring in WSE [Whiting School of Engineering] and KSAS [Krieger School of Arts and Sciences] departments. The CM minor emphasizes computation more than the BME major,” Vogelstein wrote in an email to The News-Letter.
The minor is open to all students but geared toward those studying computer science, electrical and computer engineering, applied mathematics and statistics, biology, neuroscience, biophysics, public health and biomedical engineering.
Students are assigned an ICM advisor, and research concentrations within the Institute include computational anatomy, computational physiological medicine, computational molecular medicine and computational healthcare.
“There are no official minor students yet. In the first week, nearly 20 students have inquired about enrolling,” Vogelstein wrote.
