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The CCS has been awarded a pre-NPEBC grant from the National Institutes
of Health for a project titled "Biocomputing: Integrating Molecular/Organ-
Level Function."
The goal is to develop Tulane University's community of biomedical
researchers, applied mathematicians and computational scientists into a
National Program of Excellence in Biomedical Computing (NPEBC). To do so, we
are providing the essential physical and intellectual infrastructure to
perform advanced computational simulations of biomedical systems, with a focus
on multi-scale problems where molecular mechanisms influence large-scale
physiological behavior. Center activities will develop interdisciplinary links
between cohorts of faculty and research associates of diverse educational
backgrounds (theoreticians, computational and experimental scientists,
clinical investigators), and will create a substantial link between the
educational and research missions of Tulane University. In this process,
research studies will provide educational opportunities to undergraduate,
graduate and post-doctoral students. In return, the education of these
students will provide a core group of individuals who can participate in the
research activities. As a result, we will prepare ourselves to become a
National Program of Excellence in Biomedical Computing. In order for our pre-
NPEBC to develop into an NPEBC, we will attain the following objectives:
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Objective 1:
We will initiate a research program that will link molecular to
organ-level responses in biomedical systems.
Our research program will consist of projects that will be performed
by teams of theoreticians and computational scientists who will interact with
experimentalists and clinical investigators. These projects will focus on the
development of computational methods and the use of these tools to elucidate
the importance of molecular events and the control of macroscale dynamic
processes that are instrumental to physiologic functioning at the organ-level.
Objective 2:
We will develop a physical and intellectual infrastructure that
will support and promote multidisciplinary groups of educators and researchers
as they create and teach biomedical computing techniques for the investigation
of multiple-scale problems in biomedical systems.
Our goal is to promote and provide resources for the interdisciplinary
interaction between faculty and students from different departments who have
research interests in biomedical computing.
Objective 3:
We will develop educational and outreach opportunities to train
the next generation of biomedical researchers.
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Related Research Projects:
Project:
Structure and Dynamics of DNA
P.I.s:
Thomas Bishop (Environmental Health Sciences), Ricardo Cortez
(Mathematics), Oleksandr Zhmudsky (CCS)
Project:
Dynamics of Interfaces in Visoelastic Fluids
P.I.s:
Donald Gaver (Biomedical Engineering), Daniel DeKee (Chemical Engineering),
Ali El-Afif (CCS), Ricardo Cortez (Mathematics)
Project:
Computational Neuroscience/Electrobiology
P.I.s:
Natalia Trayanova (Biomedical Engineering), Jeffrey Tasker (Cell
and Molecular Biology) Alexander Komendantov (CCS).
Project:
Surface and Interface Processes
P.I.s:
Ulrike Diebold (Physics), Daniel Lacks (Chemical Engineering), Igor Kuyanov
(CCS).
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