Stephan Schürer, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at the Miller School, and Chemoinformatics program leader at IDSC, is the head of the team of University of Miami researchers funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who are creating a Data Coordination and Integration Center for the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program. Read more “NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Grant”
The University of Miami Libraries has received a two-year $260,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support software development that will expand the functionality of the Cuban Theater Digital Archives. Dr. Mitsunori Oghihara, Associate Dean for Digital Library Innovation and Center for Computational Science Director of Data Mining will oversee the development of various software components that will add metadata extraction from the digital media (videos and graphics), add community tags and a search mechanism, and make a publication tool available that allows scholars to more easily access archived materials for research. Read more “Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand UM Libraries’ Cuban Theater Digital Archive”
With the ultimate goal of accelerating the discovery of drugs to regenerate or protect nerves after spinal cord injury, UM Miller School researchers have received a $2.5 million grant to develop a novel database via the Center for Computational Science to enable neuroscientists to search the voluminous and growing number of studies related to nervous system repair, and link relevant data from those studies to other resources. Read more “Researchers to Create World Database for Nervous System Repair”
Each year, the National Hurricane Center estimates that tropical storm-related flood damage costs literally billions of dollars. In 2011, it was estimated at $8,410,469,500. In 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina, that number was $51,173,065,465. So, to have a tool that can help forecast the potential for flooding rise means better preparation and reduced damage and costs. Read more “Grant Awarded to Multiple Institutions for Drought and Flood Prediction”