QBI/UCSF-TAU Grants in Computational Biology and Drug Discovery
QBI/UCSF in collaboration with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics and the Blavatnik Center for Drug Discovery at TAU have announced a call for joint grants between QBI/UCSF and TAU scientists.
A total of $300K was secured by both institutions for the initiative. The collaborative grants are aimed to effectively connect the computational biology and drug discovery communities at UCSF and TAU.
Following a competitive application process and rigorous scientific review, five collaborative research teams were selected to receive funding:
William DeGrado, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, QBI-UCSF, and Ehud Gazit, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU.
Project title: "The interplay between metabolites and proteins in Parkinson’s disease"
Nevan Krogan, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, QBI-UCSF, and Roded Sharan, School of Computer Science, TAU.
Project title: "Network-based identification of novel drug targets for COVID-19"
Tanja Kortemme, Dept. of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, QBI-UCSF, Noam Ben-Eliezer, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Maayan Gal, Faculty of Medicine, TAU.
Project title: "Design of hyperstable de novo proteins as non-antibody biologics, and specific
quantitative MRI biomarkers"
Raul Andino, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, QBI-UCSF, and Tzachi Hagai, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, TAU.
Project title: "Deciphering the unique properties of bat antiviral immunity".
Tejal Desai, Dept. of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, QBI-UCSF, and Noam Shomron, Faculty of Medicine, TAU.
Project title: "Ultra-low dose THC treatment leads to precision Nano-mRNA delivery for augmented cognition".
The one-year grants started on February 2021. We envision these grants as seeding long-term successful collaborations and will seek additional funding to broaden and deepen the collaboration between the institutes.
