Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Directorate
Posted 8/24/2021
Six graduate students from Butler University and Nova Southeastern University completed a virtual 10-week summer training program with the Accelerating Opportunities for Therapeutics in Medicine (ATOM) Consortium at the end of July. Their efforts are the latest part of ATOM’s mission to put accelerated, computer-based pharmaceutical discovery in the hands of the scientific community.
The ATOM Summer Training Program is an essential part of this democratization goal. It equips future drug developers and pharmacologists with expertise in data science, AI, and drug discovery.
“ATOM is not only about the technology but putting tomorrow’s technology into the hands of the workforce today,” said Eric Stahlberg, Ph.D., ATOM co-lead and director of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the Frederick National Laboratory.
ATOM is a collaboration between national laboratories, universities, and the pharmaceutical industry to combine scientific studies, data collection, and computing to shorten the research and development time for new medicines. By combining disciplines, the consortium is working to speed up the traditionally long and expensive process.
