PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The National Institutes of Health has awarded Brown University an $11.5-million grant aimed at bettering the understanding of the genetic nature of such diseases as cancer, severe lung infections and preeclampsia, a serious and sometimes fatal complication of pregnancy.
The five-year grant establishing a new Center of Biomedical Research Excellence will not only fund research but boost collaboration among Brown faculty who specialize in such distinct but related fields as immunology and molecular biology.
All will involve the use of advanced computer analysis, an important new tool of the digital age – computational biology, as it is known in the life sciences.