NEW YORK, Oct. 20 (GenomeWeb News) - The NIH has awarded two grants totaling $3.85 million to multi-institutional proteomics and bioinformatics initiatives under its Roadmap program, Rutgers University said on Monday.
A $2 million, five-year training grant goes to the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology at Rutgers and the Universityof Medicineand Dentistry of New Jersey, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium, and the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics/Protein Data Bank. It will be used to train graduate students and postdocs in proteomics.
The ComputationalCenterfor Biomolecular Complexes, a virtual research initiative involving scientists at Rutgers, Baylor College of Medicine, the Scripps Research Institute, and the Universityof Texasat Austin, has won $1.85 million to develop workshops, undertake pilot studies, and develop new computational systems to study large molecular complexes.