2024 Interdisciplinary Bootcamp (UIC and UI Health)
The first annual bootcamp organized by the institute has taken place in August 2024, with awesome outcomes and participant feedback. It was the first bootcamp of this type organized at UIC. In a 5-day long facilitated workshop, 25 researchers from the two campuses (UIC and UI Health): formed interdisciplinary teams of 3-4 individual around unique project ideas; articulated the significance and innovation of those ideas; received targeted feedback from mentors; and refined those ideas repeatedly until they turned into awesome mini-proposals for seed funding. In the following year, the Institute will work with the teams to strengthen and submit these project proposals to federal funding agencies and other funding sources.
Epic Cosmos Hackathon
The Institute is excited to host and sponsor the Epic Cosmos hackathon this year, which will take place on Oct 9th 2024. Epic EHR is a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) system that is used by healthcare organizations in the U.S. (including medical records of 78% of U.S. patients, typically accessed through MyChart). Cosmos is a dataset created using Epic to facilitate making new discoveries and advance medicine. Epic Cosmos representatives will be at the hackaton to help train participants, and lunch will be provided. Pre-registration is required.