With a five-year, $11.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Brown University in Providence, R.I., will create a new Center of Biomedical Research Excellence and expand the university's computational biology research.
The new center will support five early career faculty members as they conduct research on the genomics of diseases like severe lung infections, preeclampsia and cancer. The initiative will pool researchers from different departments in a collaborative effort to use genomic information to facilitate advancements in medicine and health.
"Brown scientists and students from a number of departments around the university — from computer science and applied mathematics to biology, medicine and public health — have been working collaboratively to understand and realize the benefits of advanced genomics," said David Savitz, PhD, epidemiologist and Brown's vice president for research. "This new COBRE will expand those programs to help move Brown to the forefront of this exciting, promising field of research."
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