LA JOLLA, CA\u2014The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $4.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to build a state-of-the-art data center that will dramatically increase its research computing power for the next decade.<\/p>\n
\nOnly one of two such construction grants awarded in California and 14 nationwide, Salk’s latest grant is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was designed to immediately create jobs and lay a foundation for a robust and sustainable economy through infrastructure modernization projects.<\/p>\n
\n“This NIH grant comes at just the right time considering Salk’s growing strength in computational neurobiology and studies in epigenetics, fields of research that require intense computing power,” said Salk’s President William R. Brody. “Having a modernized data center with the ability to compute and store hundreds of terabytes of information opens the door to a new level of scientific exploration and discovery at the Salk.”<\/p>\n
\nWhile the Salk Institute’s traditional strength has been in “wet-bench” molecular and genetic research, its influence in computational biology has grown in recent years. Salk investigators now apply increasingly powerful computational approaches, such as neurobiological modeling, to answer an array of research questions. <\/p>\n
\nThe Institute’s Crick-Jacobs Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, the Razavi-Newman Center for Bioinformatics, and the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center tie a core of computer-based studies to the more traditional bench research efforts.<\/p>\n
Los logros del cuerpo docente han sido reconocidos con numerosos galardones, entre los que se incluyen premios Nobel y la pertenencia a la Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Fundado en 1960 por el Dr. Jonas Salk, pionero en la vacuna contra la poliomielitis, el Instituto es una organizaci\u00f3n independiente sin fines de lucro y un hito arquitect\u00f3nico.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-2012","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nAcerca del Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos:<\/strong>
\nEl Instituto Salk de Estudios Biol\u00f3gicos es una de las instituciones de investigaci\u00f3n b\u00e1sica m\u00e1s destacadas del mundo, donde un cuerpo docente de prestigio internacional investiga cuestiones fundamentales de las ciencias de la vida en un entorno \u00fanico, colaborativo y creativo. Centrados tanto en el descubrimiento como en la formaci\u00f3n de las futuras generaciones de investigadores, los cient\u00edficos del Salk realizan contribuciones revolucionarias a nuestra comprensi\u00f3n del c\u00e1ncer, el envejecimiento, el Alzheimer, la diabetes y las enfermedades cardiovasculares mediante el estudio de la neurociencia, la gen\u00e9tica, la biolog\u00eda celular y vegetal, y otras disciplinas relacionadas.<\/p>\n