New digital Grid will link heart researchers worldwide
March 2007—With $8.5 million in federal support, researchers at three universities, including Johns Hopkins, are creating an ambitious digital network that will allow cardiovascular researchers worldwide to easily exchange data and expertise on heart-related illnesses. The project, called the Cardiovascular Research Grid, is expected to be a boon to the large community of heart researchers who will use these digital tools to find new ways to prevent, detect and treat life-threatening cardiac ailments.
To launch this effort, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has approved an $8.5 million grant to be allocated over a four-year period that began March 1. The digital project will be based at the Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins, in collaboration with the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS) at the University of California, San Diego. (see full article...)
