# Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $275,757

## Abstract

Summary/Abstract 
The genetic basis of human disease has been an underlying focus the biomedical sciences for 
almost a century, and was a major motivating factor behind the human genome project. With 
the explosion of genomic data that has brought on the age of personalized medicine, the role of 
computational analyses has become critical for all forms of inquiry. Increasingly, clinicians and 
basic scientists are confronted with massive genomic data sets that contain important answers 
to medical problems, but discovery is hindered by limited computational expertise. The COBRE 
Center for Computational Biology of Human Disease is intended to embrace this age of 
genomic medicine from an explicitly computational angle. Five Junior Investigators will lead 
research projects on that focus on different diseases such as cancer, respiratory and age- 
related diseases and preeclampsia, but are united by common computational and bioinformatic 
challenges of large genomic data sets. By building a collaborative Center of empirical and 
computational scientists, we will be able to advance new discoveries, algorithms and genetic 
and genomic screening approaches with direct relevance to several human diseases. The 
associated Administrative Core of this Center will provide a strong supportive context for these 
specific research projects, while also providing a broad base of support for the growth of 
collaborative research efforts on human disease at Brown University and its Affiliated Hospitals.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9882514
- **Project number:** 5P20GM109035-05
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID M RAND
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $275,757
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-08-03

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9882514

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9882514, Administrative Core (5P20GM109035-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9882514. Licensed CC0.

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