CMPI
Overview
The Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity is a joint effort between the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The center was established in September 2005 in order to study local pulmonary immune responses in response to biodefense pathogens.
The center will capitalize on a longstanding tradition of collaboration between immunologists and mathematicians and computer scientists from the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan for the purpose of developing mathematical models of the immune system.
Funding for the Center comes from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Modeling Immunity for Biodefense project (RFP NIH-NIAID-DAIT-BAA-05-10).
Funding
IIS-0534531 (PI: Penelope A. Morel) Solicitation
Press
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Articile in the University Times: Research Notes: Immune Modeling Center funded
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Article in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pitt School of Medicine gets contract to help create virtual immune system
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UPMC Press Release: Mathematics used for discerning immune response to infectious diseases, vaccine development
People
Faculty:
- Penelope A. Morel, MD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Immunology), Principal Investigator
- Takis Benos, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Computational Biology), Investigator
- Panos K. Chrysanthis, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Computer Science), Investigator
- JoAnne L. Flynn, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry), Investigator
- Alexandros Labrinidis, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Computer Science), Investigator
- Gerard J. Nau, MD, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry), Investigator
- Ted M. Ross, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry), Investigator
- Russ Salter, PhD (University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Immunology), Investigator
- Shlomo Taasan, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences), co-Principal Investigator
- Ziv Bar-Joseph, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University), Investigator
- Benoit Morel, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University, Dept. of Engineering and Public Policy / Physics), Investigator
- Denise Kirschner, PhD (University of Michigan, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology), Investigator
- Simeone Marino, PhD (University of Michigan, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology), Investigator
Graduate Students:
- Shenoda Guirguis
- Panayiotis (Panickos) Neophytou
- Roxana Gheorghiu
- Jesse Szwedko
- Alexander Conner
- Qinglan Li
Undergraduate Students:
- Chad Spensky