Systems Biology Program for Infectious Diseases History

In 2008, NIAID established the Systems Biology Program for Infectious Disease Research. In 2012/2013, NIAID continued the Systems Biology Program to further develop an interdisciplinary community that integrates experimental biology, computational tools and modeling across temporal and spatial scales towards a better understanding of infectious diseases. These efforts laid the groundwork in 2016 to support Systems Biology centers that address antibacterial resistance and centers funded in 2018 to advance models across diverse pathogens. 

Through well-defined research questions each center built, tested, and validated hypotheses that relied on generating and interpreting and integrating large-scale datasets. Their work ushered cutting-edge “omics” technologies into the infectious diseases field by connecting computational scientists, microbiologists, virologists, immunologists, and clinicians. 

A funding timeline and Specific Center details are outlined below.

Timeline for Systems Biology Program and its funding

Funding timeline and Specific Center details

Credit: NIAID

2008: NIAID/DMID launches the Systems Biology Program for Infectious Diseases

Centers

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; The Center for Systems Biology for EnteroPathogens
  • Institute for Systems Biology; The Center for Systems Influenza
  • University of Washington; The Systems Virology Center
  • Stanford University; The TB Systems Biology Center

Publications

2012-2013: NIAID continues to support the Systems Biology Centers for Infectious Diseases

Centers

Publications

  • PubMed search for 2012-2013 Center publications

2016: Systems Biology and Antibacterial Resistance Program

Centers

Publications

  • PubMed for the Antibacterial Resistance Program publications.

2018: Systems Biology—The Next Generation Program

Centers

Publications

  • PubMed search for the Next Generation Program publications.
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