Special Events

The National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC)

Tuesday Evening Panel
August 15, 2006
7:45 PM

Open to the Public
(free of charge)

About the National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC)

In May 2002, Elias Zerhouni, NIH Director, defined three major funding areas: New Pathways to Discovery, Research Teams of the Future and Reengineering the Clinical Research Enterprise. Emerging disciplines, such as, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, not traditionally affiliated with any one of the National Institutes were identified as high priority areas for Roadmap funding.

At this time, NIH has funded seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing. The Center's mission is to develop computational tools to support analysis of biological discovery. These Centers define the current state of the art in the field.

For more information on the NIH Roadmap: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/overview.asp

For breakdowns of each individual Center, see: http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics/fundedresearch.asp

Panel Chair

Until a few months ago, the LSS NCBC Panel Chair, Eric Jakobsson, PhD, was Director of the NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the National Institutes of Health. He has now returned to his professorial position at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Presentation (PDF)

Panelists

NCBC Awarded in 2005:

1. Brian D. Athey, Ph.D. University of Michigan
National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics
Presentation (PDF)
2. Chris Wiggins PhD, Columbia University
National Center for the Multi-Scale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks
Presentation (PDF)
3. Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University
National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Presentation (PDF)

NCBC Awarded in 2004:

4. Russ Altman, M.D., Ph.D. Stanford University
National Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures
5. Ron Kikinis, M.D. Brigham and Women's Hospital
National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing
Presentation (PDF)
6. Isaac Kohane, M.D., Ph.D. Brigham and Women's Hospital
Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside
7. Ivo Dinov, COO, University of California at Los Angeles
Center for Computational Biology
Presentation (PDF)

Panel Discussion

Issues the Panel will address:

1. How well mapped are the NCBC's to the big problems and opportunities in computational biology?

2. What other scientific activities and programmatic initiatives are needed?

3. What should the engineers and computer scientists who attend CSB get excited about and think about working on, in order to deliver and collaborate with the NCBCs?

4. Discuss NIH special arrangement (competition) where moneys have been set aside for individual or collaboration work in this area

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For more information on this event, please contact Nigam Shah at the Life Sciences Society.

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