The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
The grant program seeks to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE) for Systems Modeling of Infection and Immunity across Biological Scales. Its goals are to develop computational multi-scale modeling research addressing NIAID's priority biomedical questions, including HIV/AIDS; enhance coordination within the NIAID and the broader modeling community through model and data sharing, funding opportunities, educational, and community-organizing activities; improve research and coordination activities for better data and model sharing; cultivate a diverse community of investigators engaged in Infectious and Immune-mediated Disease (IID) multi-scale modeling and foster collaboration between experimental and computational scientists; serve as the main contact for the modeling community to NIAID, especially in rapidly shifting research priorities during acute outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics; and establish educational opportunities and promote new methodologies for multi-scale model sharing and reproducibility, in line with FAIR principles and the NIAID Data Ecosystem Portal. The program encourages the development of leadership teams and meaningful collaborations to build strong scientific and operational links within the larger IID modeling community.