Congratulations to Dr. Tomas Helikar

Photo Credit: Dr. Thomas Helikar
Tue, 09/06/2016 - 10:37

September 6, 2016 -- Dr. Tomas Helikar (Assistant Professor of Biochemistry) was awarded a five year grant from the National Institutes of Health entitled, "A predictive multi-scale model of the immune system: An integrated resource for interdisciplinary applications" for $1.78 million dollars.

The project centers around developing a systems-level, comprehensive, and multi-scale computational framework for the immune system to enable us to better understand and predict complex behavior of the immune system in the context of diseases and associated therapies. This framework has the potential to enable the interrogation of the dynamics and emergent properties of complex molecular, cellular, and disease networks that give rise to and regulate the immune system. This computational resource will provide a broad environment to a range of scientific communities interested in the immune system, including molecular experimentalists, clinicians, translational scientists, and computational biologists.