Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine

描述（由申请人提供）： 凯克计算生物学中心开发了一种强大的多功能 计算生物学的多学科、多机构培训计划 以这个NLM项目为核心我们已经形成了墨西哥湾沿岸 财团（海湾合作委员会），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、 得克萨斯湾D.德克萨斯大学健康科学安德森癌症中心 休斯顿中心和德克萨斯大学医学分支加尔维斯顿。凯克 中心将继续其目前的组织作为培训部门的 GCC和个人研究联盟将围绕特定的重点领域形成 (e.g.,磁共振，生物信息学，成像），以寻求资金的主要 设备和程序项目在特定领域的利益。满足 随着我们扩大到六个机构，对受训人员的需求增加， 我们请求凯克基金会的支持， 向国立卫生研究院提出建议。 我们的学员在计算和生物学的接口工作，开发和 应用先进的信息学算法工具，模拟策略， 重要问题的可视化和分析技术。我们的NLM学员 已经编制了科学成就的杰出记录，许多 我们的学员现在已经担任了学术职务和责任岗位， 工业上我们的学员参与生物学前沿的工作， 和生物医学科学在以下重点领域：信息学; 多维和功能成像;和模拟的大分子和 细胞行为。 NLM为以下领域的博士前和博士后学员提供的核心支持： 这一计划已高度杠杆化的发展， 强有力的行政结构，这反映在我们最近的扩展， 包括六个机构。NLM的资金与来自 机构和其他资金来源，以创造一个独特的，高度 在一个令人兴奋的和具有挑战性的研究环境有效的培训环境。

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.