National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)

该奖项建立了一个中心，以促进数学和生物科学界面的研究和教育。该中心的目标是在推进数学科学的同时解决基础和应用生物学问题，并促进跨学科研究人员的发展。需要一个跨学科的视角，将生物学与物理科学和社会科学联系起来，以推动现代生物学沿着一系列具有挑战性的问题前进，同时为数学的基础进步提供途径。该中心将通过向整个社区公开呼吁，发展一系列小型工作组，重点关注将受益于跨学科努力的主题，从而使该中心真正成为国家社区资源。这些努力有可能改变数学家和生物学家的合作方式，这种文化上的改变将促进这两个学科及其界面的重大进步。在过去的一个世纪里，生物学已经从主要描述生物世界的模式转变为确定这些模式是如何产生的，哪些过程会影响它们，以及我们如何有效地修改和管理它们。该中心将与政府和行业伙伴合作，为控制入侵物种、限制传染病的影响以及提出药物设计的新方法等问题提供科学见解。因此，该中心将产生有助于制定国家政策的新知识。从K-12学生到博士后学者的各级教育计划将说明数学与生物学所有领域的联系，并将培养新一代数学生物学家。这些努力将以扩大在生物和数学科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与的必要性为指导。该中心将通过与国家公园管理局的重要伙伴关系和研究合作，针对前往大烟山国家公园的游客，开展强有力的公共宣传工作。

This award establishes a Center to foster research and education at the interface of the mathematical and biological sciences. The goals of the Center are to address fundamental and applied biological questions while advancing the mathematical sciences, and to foster the development of transdisciplinary researchers. An interdisciplinary perspective, linking biology to the physical and social sciences, is needed to advance modern biology along a broad array of challenging problems while providing avenues for fundamental advances in mathematics. The Center will develop a series of small working groups focused on topics that will benefit from interdisciplinary efforts through an open call to the entire community so as to make the center truly a national community resource. These efforts have the potential to transform the way that mathematicians and biologists collaborate, a cultural change that will spur significant progress in both disciplines and at their interface. Over the past century biology has changed from mostly describing the patterns of the living world to determining how these patterns arose, what processes affect them and how we might effectively modify and manage them. In collaboration with government and industry partners, the Center will provide scientific insights into problems such as the control of invasive species, limiting impacts of infectious diseases, and suggesting new methods for drug design. Thus the Center will produce new knowledge that will help to shape national policy. Educational initiatives at all levels, from K-12 students to post-doctoral scholars, will illustrate the connections of mathematics to all areas of biology and will train a new generation of mathematical biologists. These efforts will be guided by the need to broaden participation by groups under-represented in the biological and mathematical sciences. The Center will develop a strong public outreach effort through a significant partnership and research collaboration with the National Park Service targeting visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.