EPA has awarded $9 million in grants to establish two environmental bioinformatics centers that merge computer science, biology, and toxicology to predict hazardous outcomes and advance the field of human health and ecological risk assessment.
Washington — EPA has awarded $9 million in grants toestablish two environmental bioinformatics centers that merge computerscience, biology, and toxicology to predict hazardous outcomes andadvance the field of human health and ecological risk assessment.
Thegrants were awarded to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey atPiscataway. At 9 a.m. on Nov. 2 at EPA's main campus in ResearchTriangle Park, N.C., information about the grants and EPA's initiativein bioinformatics will be provided prior to a workshop between the twouniversity-based centers and EPA.
WHAT: U.S. EPA Environmental Bioinformatics Centers Workshop
WHEN: Wednesday, November 2, 2005; 9 a.m.
WHERE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Main Campus, Building C, Room C111B, Research Triangle Park, N.C.
WHO: Lek Kadeli, Deputy Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Research and Development; Christopher Zarba, Acting Deputy Director, EPA National Center for Environmental Research; William J. Welsh, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Center Director, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey; Fred A. Wright, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Center Director, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
More information about the U.S. EPA Environmental Bioinformatics Centers Workshop can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events.
Source: EPA
