Students interested in the Precision Medicine/Genetics program will typically work with a mentor in the Center for Precision Medicine Research (CPMR) on a project that focuses on discovering the structure of the human genome and the hunt for genes that influence human health disorders, which will improve patient care. In addition to the independent research project, studies may have the opportunity to be involved with other projects related to MCRI’s cutting edge molecular technologies and Marshfield Clinic’s Personalized Medicine Research Project (PMRP), which is a biobank of plasma, serum, and DNA specimens from 20,000 Marshfield Clinic patients.
CPMR SRIP Project
CPMR researchers will offer one project for the 2025 summer session.
1) Identifying Families in Electronic Health Records
Project Overview:
To date, nearly 20% of Marshfield Clinic’s current and historic patient population can be linked to other family members using the electronic health record. This pedigree data is highly valuable to many research studies but is often limited to the youngest and healthiest subset of patients. Expanding this work to older patients would greatly increase the value of this family data.
Primary research hypothesis: Older and less healthy patients in Marshfield Clinic’s electronic health record can be placed into existing and new pedigrees.
Requirements:
Students should have excellent critical thinking and skills associated with data manipulation, quality analytics, and descriptive statistics; an ability to use different approaches to determine optimal impact of data analysis; and be proficient in SAS programming (or similar) - SQL syntax knowledge preferred. This project is open to data science, bioinformatics, or similar degree(s). This project is open to undergraduate seniors, and graduate students. Students will be performing literature reviews, analyzing data, and attending seminars--with heavy focus in data analysis. This project is either virtual or in-person internship - although in-person is preferred.
The RedCap application window is now open and will close Feb. 7, 2025 at 11:59 pm. References will be sent an email link and these will be due Feb. 9, 2025 at 11:59 pm.