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Launched in 2020, this collaborative effort is designed to support research that can accelerate approaches to address unmet needs for patients with cancer. The program aligns the computational research and mathematical modeling strengths of TACC and the Oden Institute with MD Anderson’s oncology and data science expertise, including the institution’s recently launched Institute for Data Science in Oncology.
This year marks the fourth round of seed funding. The program has funded three new projects which bring together collaborators from research units across MD Anderson and UT Austin, and has continued support for two previous seed projects over this funding cycle.
Each new seed project receives grant funding of $50,000, split between both MD Anderson and UT Austin. Computational elements of each project can also tap into TACC’s high performance computing platforms. Ernesto Lima, a research associate at the Oden Institute’s Center for Computational Oncology, will support researchers with the implementation of these project elements.
Tom Yankeelov, director of the Oden Institute’s Center for Computational Oncology and John Hazle, chair of Imaging Physics at MD Anderson, co-lead the collaborative effort.