Government-Sponsored Research

National Cancer Institute

Colon Cancer Networks: Linking Modeling to Experiment

The major goal of this project was to develop computational models of signal transduction pathways implicated in colon cancer. These models gave insight into the pathways' dynamic behavior and elucidated their roles in activating known oncogenic target genes.

Amount: $100,000

New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research

Data-driven Molecularly Detailed Simulation of Escherichia coli

The major goal of this project was to map and model bacterial metabolic pathways.

Amount: $29,048

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Cost-Effective Detection of Efficacious and Non-Toxic Drug Targets via Breakthrough in silico Methods

The major goal of this project is to develop and validate the software that creates dynamic, predictive simulations of normal and cancerous cells with up to 10,000 cellular components as a means of rapidly identifying targets for new, non-toxic drugs.

Amount: $2,000,000

US Department of Energy

Computational Hypothesis Testing: Integrating Heterogeneous Data and Large-Scale Simulation to Generate Pathway Hypotheses

The major goal of this project was to create a computational hypothesis testing framework that combines large-scale dynamic simulation, a database of bioinformatics-derived probable interactions, and numerical parallel architecture data-fitting routines. This platform would be used to explore many "what if?" hypotheses about the functions of genes and proteins within pathways and their downstream effects on molecular concentration profiles and corresponding phenotypes.

Amount: $2,517,930

MITACS: Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence

Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems Award

G-proteins and decision making in single cells

The purpose of this project is to use experimental and computational methods to study G-protein-coupled receptor signaling in single cells. The project will focus on determining how the Gq network integrates input from the angiotensin II and alpha-adrenergic receptors.

Amount: $40,000 CAD

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Software for Simulating Cardiac Electrical Activity

The major goal of this project is to develop a software platform for exploring models that characterize electrical activity in single heart cells.

Amount: $100,000

Computer Model of Cardiac Signaling Networks

The goal of this project is to model a cardiac signaling network supported by state of the art software facilitating simulation of large-scale, data-driven models of cardiac signaling pathways.

Amount: $100,000

Data Collection and Integration in Cardiac Risk Assessment

The goal of this project is to develop experimental protocols for characterizing ion current/drug interactions and to develop a database for storing and integrating these data into computer simulations.

Amount: $137,800

Simulation Software for Cardiac Arrhythmia Risk Assessment

The goal of this project is to develop a software platform for simulating models of cardiac ion currents, action potentials, and tissue, and to validate the platform using experimental data.

Amount: $1,658,273

Computer Model of the Canine Ventricle

The major goal of this project is to develop a data-driven computer model of the electrical behavior of the canine ventricle.

Amount: $1,931,867

National Science Foundation

Computational Modeling of Cardiac Electrical Response

The goal of this project was to implement and refine a model of a single heart cell, to couple models of single cells in order to model heart tissue, and to use these models to study the mechanisms underlying ventricular fibrillation.

Amount: $100,000