Dr Mark Drayson, Honorary Clinical Immunologist from the College of Medical and Dental Sciences, commented: “This collaboration between the three Colleges represents a very exciting opportunity to exploit Birmingham’s first class research and clinical science.”
Website: www.ssfh.bham.ac.uk
Further details: Dr Mark Viant, Chair of the Systems Science for Health Steering Group
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Systems Science for Health
Systems Science for Health brings together academics from the University’s Colleges of Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, and Engineering and Physical Sciences. The basic research scientists will work with clinical scientists to develop to discover new diagnostic markers for disease or to measure the therapeutic responses of drugs on the body’s tissues.
This major new initiative creates a unique opportunity to uncover disease markers, mechanisms, and targets for treatment by bringing the latest advances in omics technologies and mathematical modelling to bear on diseases with complex and person specific causes.
The University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham is a vibrant, global community and an internationally-renowned institution. Its work brings people from across the world to Birmingham, including researchers and teachers and more than four thousand international students from nearly 150 different countries.
The University is home to nearly 30,000 students. With more than 7,500 postgraduate students from across the world, Birmingham is one of the most popular universities for postgraduate study in the UK.
Birmingham Science City
Birmingham Science City is a region-wide partnership of public sector, businesses and the research base, which is facilitating the use of science and technology to improve the quality of life and prosperity of the West Midlands. Funded by Advantage West Midlands, Birmingham Science City’s aim is to create strategies to exploit centres of world-class scientific research, by developing relevant activities for sustainable economic and social benefit.
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