Simbios Collaborations

Current collaborators through the collaborating R01/R21 program

Antonie van den Bogert
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Project: Efficient Methods for Multi-Domain Biomechanical Simulations (2006)

Patrice Koehl
Department of Computer Science
Genome Center
University of California Davis
Project: Geometric-based and Physics-based Simulations of RNA Folding (2007)

Richard Neptune
Cockrell School of Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Project: Development of a SimTK-based framework for hemiparetic walking assessment (2007)

Silvia Salinas Blemker
Departments of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia
&
Darryl Thelen
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Project: Biocomputation of the Links Between Muscle Morphology, Coordination and Injury (2007)

Jay Humphrey
Department Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Project: Biomechanical Simulation of Evolving Aortic Aneurysms for Designing Intervention (2008)

Collaborators through "Simbios's Seed Project Program"

2007:

Ellen Kuhl
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Project: SimGrowth – A virtual lab for myocardial infarction and restoration of cardiac function

Peter Ortoleva
Center for Cell and Virus Theory
Indiana University
Project: All-atom Multiscale Simulation of Virus, Ribosome and Other Bionanosystems.pdf

Jeff Weiss
Department of Biongineering
University of Utah
Project: Modeling of Skeletal Muscle with FEBio.pdf

2006:

Patrice Koehl
Department of Computer Science and Genome Center
UC Davis
Project: ElecTK: A Toolbox for Macromolecular Electrostatics

Jill Higginson
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
Project: Simulation of post-stroke hemiparetic gait: 2d vs 3d

Darryl Thelen
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Project: The Incorporation of Ground Contact Models When Simulating Subject-Specific Gait

Pengyu Ren and Robin Gutell
Department of Biomedical Engineering
UT Austin
Project: Physical-based Coarse-Grain Modeling tool for RNA

Other Collaborators (list in progress)

Wah Chui
National Center for Macromolecular imaging
Baylor College of Medicine

Jesús A. Izaguirre
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Simbios Scientific Advisory Board

Peter Hunter
Chris Johnson
Roger Kamm
Andrew McCammon
Andrew McCulloch
Cleve Moler
Linda Petzold
Rob Phillips
Bob Ryan
Klaus Schulten
David Shaw
Beau Vrolyk

For prospective applicants to the NIH Roadmap related R01s PAR-07-249 (re-issue of  PAR-05-063) and R21s PAR-07-250 (reissue of PAR-06-223) (Collaborating with National Centers for Biomedical Computing). Please contact us if you are interested in a collaborative project with the Simbios Center.

Please also download and read the following 2 documents.

Simbios-R01R21Plan.pdf describes the process for collaborating with Simbios and should be read first.

Simbios-5Pager.pdf (also in word format: simbios-5-pager.doc) provides a 5-page summary of Simbios, suitable as a starting point for the 5-page summary required with your submission. We recommend that this 5-page summary be modified to include the nature of the proposed collaboration.

In addition to contacting the center, you are encouraged to contact the NIH Program Officer Peter Lyster, Ph.D. (NIGMS) or the Lead Science Officer Jennie Larkin, Ph.D. (NHLBI) for Simbios.

Important Change:
This is to inform that the announcement for Collaborations with National Centers for Biomedical Computing PAR-05-063 (R01) and Exploratory Collaborations PAR-06-223 (R21) have been reissued so as to remove a restriction on prior collaborators and released in a form compliant with electronic submission. The new announcements are PAR-07-249 (R01 -- re-issue of  PAR-05-063), and PAR-07-250 (R21- reissue of PAR-06-223).

Inquiries:
Peter Lyster, Ph.D.
Program Director Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
45 Center Drive, Room 2AS 55K, MSC 6200
Bethesda, MD 20892-6200
Telephone: (301) 451-6446
FAX: (301) 480-2802
Email: lysterp@nigms.nih.gov

Please note key dates for next round and in particular the new application receipt date
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): N/A;
Application Receipt Dates(s): May 17, 2008 (anticipated date -- RFA not released)
Peer Review Date(s): not known
Council Review Date(s): not known
Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s): April 1, 2009;