{"70372":{"#nid":"70372","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NIH Awards Blueprint Training Grant in Computational Neuroscience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFaculty at Emory and Georgia Tech are training young scientists in \nhow to use the tools of biomedical computation to solve challenging \nproblems of neuroscience.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA new five-year grant of $1.6 million from the National Institutes of\n Health will create a training center in computational neuroscience, one\n of only five national training centers supported by the NIH through its\n NIH Blueprint training grant program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe grant is entitled \u201cFrom cells to systems and applications: \ncomputational neuroscience training at Emory and Georgia Tech.\u201d \nPrincipal investigators are Dieter Jaeger, PhD, professor of biology, \nEmory University and Garrett Stanley, PhD, associate professor in the \nWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech \nand Emory University.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe NIH Blueprint training grants are particularly innovative in \nthat they combine undergraduate and graduate training programs and \nprovide trainee support at both levels,\u201d says Jaeger. \u201cThis is a mission\n that is highly synergistic with the training mission at Emory and \nGeorgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NIH Blueprint is a framework to enhance cooperative activities \namong 16 NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices that support research on \nthe nervous system.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe core training group will initially consist of 16 faculty members \nfrom departments spanning Emory University School of Medicine \n(physiology, neurology, anesthesiology, biomedical engineering) and \nEmory College of Arts and Sciences (biology, psychology) as well as \nGeorgia Tech (biomedical engineering, electrical engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis impressive range of faculty and departments provides testimony \nto the highly collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of this field \nof study at Georgia Tech and Emory,\u201d notes Stanley.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe training grant funds students in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/NEUROSCIENCE\u0022\u003EEmory Neuroscience Program\u003C\/a\u003E and the joint \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/acad.bme.gatech.edu\/graduate\/\u0022\u003EEmory\/Georgia Tech BME PhD program\u003C\/a\u003E, and undergraduates on both campuses.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Faculty at Emory and Georgia Tech are training young scientists in how to use the tools of biomedical computation to solve challenging problems of neuroscience."}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Faculty at Emory and Georgia Tech are training young scientists in how to use the tools of biomedical computation to solve challenging problems of neuroscience."}],"uid":"27224","created_gmt":"2011-09-28 15:56:35","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:14","author":"Megan McDevitt","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62916":{"id":"62916","type":"image","title":"Garrett Stanley","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894549","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:29","alt":"Garrett Stanley","file":{"fid":"191606","name":"tmk35536.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmk35536_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tmk35536_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1358092,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tmk35536_0.jpg?itok=Dx7Kh7i6"}}},"media_ids":["62916"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14462","name":"Garrett Stanley"},{"id":"14463","name":"Rob Butera"},{"id":"1924","name":"Robert Butera"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca title=\u0022Holly Korschun\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:hkorsch@emory.edu\u0022\u003EHolly Korschun\u003C\/a\u003E: 404-727-3990\u003Ca title=\u0022Beverly Clark\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:beverly.clark@emory.edu\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca title=\u0022Beverly Clark\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:beverly.clark@emory.edu\u0022\u003EBeverly Clark\u003C\/a\u003E: 404-712-8780\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}