Computational Life and Medical Sciences Network

The UCL Computational Life and Medical Sciences (CLMS) Network aims to encourage and support collaboration, communication and co-operation between the various domains that promote the development of computational life and medical (basic and clinical) science at University College London. The Network has been set up, initially for three years from September/October 2010, with financial support from the Provost's Strategic Funds. It is the result of an emerging consensus brought about by a UCL Working Group assembled by the Vice Provost (Research) in September 2009 which was chaired by Professor Peter Coveney. The UCL CLMS Network aims to:

• Serve to continue to grow the consensus, the direction of travel and define the foci for major activities in the computational life and medical sciences domain.
• Provide a mechanism for collaborations between experimental and computational scientists within UCL and beyond.
• Promote the development of an educational curriculum to train new generations of scientists and clinicians in new ways of thinking.
• Enable the effective and rapid translation of computational methods to health-care delivery.

Over the next three years the network will organise symposia and seminars, strengthen industrial ties and develop new partnerships; establish PhD and research fellowships in the area of computational life and medical sciences; lobby government and funding agencies to recognise the importance of computational life sciences and biomedicine; and provide suitable technical infrastructures to support such advanced scientific methods. By sitting at the intersection of life, physical, engineering and medical sciences at UCL, CLMS will endeavour to become the hub of interdisciplinary activities and keep everyone up-to-date with developments in the complementary research fields involved.

Membership of the CLMS Network is open to all members of UCL, UCL Partners and affiliated institutions. Joining the CLMS Network is easy: just click here or on the “Join CLMS” link (left) and fill in the details requested. This will sign you up to our mailing list, from which important information and developments will be sent out. These will include information about relevant grant calls and conferences (including our annual symposium).