Perry L. Miller, M.D.

Perry L. Miller, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and director of Medical Informatics, was awarded a $1.3 million grant as part of the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to support planning for Centers of Excellence in Biomedical Computing. This “pre-center” grant provides funds over three years to prepare Yale to host such a center, which could ultimately be funded at $5 million or more per year. Co-directors of this grant include Michael Snyder, professor and chair of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, and Martin Schultz, the Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science. The NIH has identified a critical shortage of scientists trained in the interdisciplinary areas of biomedical computing. The new centers will help train new scientists in these areas.