NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announced two initiatives worth over £35 million ($66 million) to encourage systems biology research.
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BBSRC and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council committed £30 million to the Systems Approaches to Biological Research Initiative. The initiative will fund projects in 2007 to increase systems biology research being conducted in universities and institutes.
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BBSRC and EPSRC invested £43.6 million in six university-based systems biology centers in 2005. Researchers from those centers are invited to participate in the second initiative, worth £5 million. The Exploiting Systems Biology LINK Initiative will allow them to work with industrial collaborators who will contribute at least 50 per cent of full cost of each project.
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The centers are at the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, and Imperial College London.