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Purpose |
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The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to move the field
of biomedical computational modeling forward through the development of more
realistic and predictive models of health and disease. NIH recognizes the need
for sophisticated, predictive, computational models of development and disease
that encompass multiple biological scales. These models may be designed to
uncover biological mechanisms or to make predictions about clinical outcome
and may draw on a variety of data sources including relevant clinical data.
Ultimately the models and the information derived from their use will enable
researchers and clinicians to better understand, prevent, diagnose and treat
the diseases or aberrations in normal development. Specifically this FOA solicits
the development of predictive multiscale models of health and disease states
that must include higher scales of the physiome. The specific objectives are
to develop multiscale models that are physiologically mechanistic and biomedically
relevant, to bring together modeling and biomedical expertise to collaborate on building
models, to validate and test models with standard datasets, and to develop
models that can be explicitly shared with other modelers.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is interested in new or enhanced
predictive models of health and disease that incorporate cell, tissue,
organ function, and/or physiological processes. We are also interested
in models of health and disease that are relevant to public health and
population health studies, such as those which incorporate behavioral,
cultural or environmental factors. |
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Deadlines |
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January 14, 2008, May 14, 2008, September 15, 2008, January 14, 2009, May 14, 2009, September 15, 2009, January 14, 2010, May 14, 2010, September 15, 2010
Full listing of deadlines for competing applications: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/Deadlines.html
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