Centre for scientists of tomorrow
Posted on: Tuesday, 24 June 2003, 06:00 CDT
The scientists of tomorrow, charged with cracking DNA mysteries behind diseases such as cancer, will be nurtured in the Midlands following the opening of a pounds 5 million research centre. The Doctoral Training Centre is to be based at the University of Warwick and will see 50 students put through a pioneering programme linking maths with biology. The first graduates will start on the one-year programme this September.
Experts believe these 'next generation' scientists will be vital to making sense of complex computer data tied to gene mapping and understanding how healthy cells become diseased.
Dr Alison Rodger, from Warwick University's department of chemistry, said: 'Research in life sciences is an area of scientific research that has changed radically in recent years following the sequencing of the human and other important genomes.
'A long time ago one did an experiment on a bacterium in a dish. Now biology is becoming more dominated by methods and procedures with lots and lots of data.
'It is increasingly difficult to extract answers from this. That is why this multi-disciplinary project is set to break new ground in the analysis of biological or molecular data.'
Funding for the centre has been secured through the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council for a five-year period.
It comes amid growing realisation that many of today's biology scientists lack the mathematical and computer competency to analyse data in the increasingly complex area of molecular biology.
Each student will receive training in key areas of mathematics, scientific computing, chemistry and biology.
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