The award will enhance the University's research capacity across the bio-medical sciences

Recruiting starts for £1m Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis

Applications from exceptional early career researchers are now being sought for 5 prestigious research Fellowships following the award of £1 million by the Wellcome Trust to establish a Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis.

They will form a cohort with expertise spanning areas of advanced mathematical and statistical modelling, high performance computing and data analytics, and multi-modal imaging and image analysis and be supported by additional equipment, academic posts, PhD studentships, seed corn funding and a programme of public engagement.

Fellows will have the opportunity to develop their own research programmes, as well as to help nucleate new research programmes that span the interface between quantitative disciplines and biology. They will receive strong mentoring from a core team of leading interdisciplinary academics from the College of Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, the College of Life and Environmental Sciences and the University of Exeter Medical School, under the co-directorship of of Nicholas Talbot FRS (Professor of Molecular Genetics and Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer) and John Terry (Professor of Biomedical Modelling and Director of Research for Mathematics and Computer Science). Professor Talbot said: "This is a very prestigious award from the Wellcome Trust and a vote of confidence in our strategy for supporting Wellcome-funded research across the University. The Trust’s ISSF award will enhance our research capacity across the bio-medical sciences, from basic, discovery science to translational health sciences research.”

Speaking about how Wellcome was supporting Exeter’s strategic research priorities, Professor Talbot said "We are currently developing a strategy to investigate how living systems operate, from the molecular level right up to the level of whole animals and plants. We are investing in a £50m Living Systems Institute on our Streatham Campus that will bring together leading mathematicians, physicists, cell and molecular biologists, biomedical scientists and engineers to understand living organisms and the way in which diseases develop.  The Wellcome Trust ISSF investment is pivotal to this exciting, interdisciplinary strategy.   Furthermore, Wellcome has been one of the principal supporters of our Precision Medicine strategy, which is applying modern genetics and genomics to the diagnosis and treatment of human disease."

Find out more and apply for one of these prestigious Fellowships.

Date: 25 November 2014

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