ICB Research Focus

The Institute will have two areas of emphasis in research:

Computational Systems Biology - One focus will be the computational aspects of the study of complex biological systems such as neuroscience; bioengineering; representation and modeling of cellular system and signaling networks; simulation of physiological systems (e.g., cardiovascular); computational aspects of imaging (e.g., image acquisition, data storage, and image analysis); and molecular simulations of structure and function.

Biomedical Informatics - Another focus will be aspects that bridge bioinformatics and medical informatics, such as genetic bioinformatics (e.g., gene expression, sequencing and diversity; pharmacogenetics) and specific application to gene discovery, proteomics, structural and functional genomics, disease etiology and epidemiology, animal development, model design and gene expression devices.

Beginning in the summer of 2003, The Institute for Computational Biomedicine will also serve as a base for training faculty and students at Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Part of the Institute’s mission is to train a new generation of scientists in bioinformatics and computational sciences as they relate to medicine.

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