Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine

描述(由申请人提供)： 凯克计算生物学中心已经开发出强大的 计算生物学的学科、多机构培训计划 以这个NLM计划为中心核心。我们已经形成了墨西哥湾沿岸 财团(GCC)，并扩大到包括六个地区机构：贝勒 莱斯大学医学院，休斯顿大学，休斯顿大学 德克萨斯州医学博士安德森癌症中心，德克萨斯大学健康科学 中心-休斯顿，和德克萨斯大学加尔维斯顿医学分校。《吻》 该中心将继续其目前的组织形式，作为 GCC和个别研究联合体将围绕特定的重点领域组成 (例如，磁共振、生物信息学、成像)为主要项目寻求资金 用于设备和特定感兴趣领域的计划项目。为了满足 随着我们扩展到六个机构，对受训人员的需求也增加了， 我们已经请求凯克基金会的支持，并开发了 提交给美国国立卫生研究院的建议。 我们的受训人员从事计算机和生物的接口工作，开发和 应用先进的信息学算法、模拟策略和 对重要问题的可视化和分析技术。我们的NLM实习生 已经积累了杰出的科学成就记录，其中许多 我们的实习生现在已经担任了学术职位和责任岗位。 在工业上。我们的受训人员从事的是生物学领域的前沿工作 以及下列重点领域的生物医学科学：信息学； 多维和功能成像；和模拟大分子和 细胞行为。 NLM为博士后和博士后实习生提供的核心支持 这一计划已经得到了高度利用，开发了一种有效和 稳健的行政结构，这体现在我们最近扩大到 包括六个机构。NLM的资金与来自 机构和其他资金来源，创造一个独特和高度 在令人兴奋和具有挑战性的研究环境中提供有效的培训环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Keck Center for Computational Biology has developed a strong multi disciplinary, multi-institutional training program in computational biology with this NLM program as its central core. We have formed the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) and expanded to encompass six area institutions: Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, and University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston. The Keck Center will continue with its present organization as the training arm of the GCC, and individual research consortia will form around specific focus areas (e.g., Magnetic Resonance, Bioinformatics, Imaging) to seek funding for major equipment and for program projects in specific fields of interest. To meet the expanded need for trainees that accompanies our expansion to six institutions, we have requested support from the Keck Foundation and have developed proposals to the National Institutes of Health. Our trainees work at the interface of computing and biology, developing and applying advanced tools of informatics algorithms, simulation strategies, and visualization and analysis techniques to important problems. Our NLM trainees have compiled an outstanding record of scientific accomplishment, and many of our trainees have now assumed academic positions and posts of responsibility in industry. Our trainees are involved in work at the forefront of biological and biomedical sciences in the following focus areas: Informatics; Multidimensional and Functional Imaging; and Simulations of Macromolecular and Cellular Behavior. Core support provided by NLM for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainees in this program has been highly leveraged by the development of an effective and robust administrative structure, as reflected by our recent expansion to include six institutions. NLM funding combines with contributions from the institutions and from other funding sources to create a unique and highly effective training environment in an exciting and challenging research milieu.