News

• June 10th, 2010: CDP's new sabbatical visitor: Kimberly Jackson

  The CDP Center welcomes its latest faculty sabbatical visitor, Dr. Kimberly Jackson of Spelman College. Dr. Jackson will be here briefly as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School's Department of Systems Biology, and for a longer period next summer.

• September 30th, 2009: NIH honors CDP investigators

  CDP investigators Linda Griffith and Gaudenz Danuser received the NIH Transformative R01 Award for 2009. The Transformative R01 Award funds bold ideas that have the potential to catapult fields forward.

• September 29th, 2009: NIH honors CDP alumni

  CDP alumni Melissa Kemp and Kevin Janes have received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award for 2009.  The New Innovator Award is designed to support creative young investigators at the beginning of their career.

• Discrete logic modelling as a means to link protein signalling networks with functional analysis of mammalian signal transduction. (2009) Saez-Rodriguez et al.

  CDP researchers Peter Sorger, Doug Lauffenberger, and colleagues described how discrete logic modeling can be used to generate predictive, cell-type-specific models of mammalian signaling from generic protein signaling networks.

  The Molecular Systems Biology paper has been featured in Nature Biotechnology and in the 2009 DREAM conference, a friendly competition among systems biologists to compare the strengths and weaknesses of ways to model signaling networks.

• research

  New experimental approaches combined with fresh thinking are redefining how measurements of complex biological systems can add to scientific knowledge and impact human health.

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• funding

  The CDP Center is funded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences grant P50-GM68762.