NIH National Program of Excellence in Biomedical Principal Investigators: Donald P. Gaver and Lisa J. Fauci 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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Research Projects: Project I: Mechano-Electric Feedback in the Heart Project II: Integrative Modeling of Bone Adaptation - Incorporation of Hierarchical Time and Length Scales Project III: Interactions Between Pulmonary Mechanical Behavior and Surfactant Molecular Dynamics | |||
Related Research Projects: Project: Structure and Dynamics of DNA Project: Dynamics of Interfaces in Visoelastic Fluids Project: Computational Neuroscience/Electrobiology Project: Surface and Interface Processes |
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