Moore Foundation Gives $5.6 Million to Caltech for New Center to Study Cell Regulation

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $5.6 million to the California Institute of Technology for the creation of the Center for Integrative Study of Cell Regulation. The goal of the center is to develop new computational methods for understanding how the many genes and proteins that make up individual cells work together to carry out specialized functions of different cell types, including neurons, plant cells, and bacteria. Mary Kennedy, Davis Professor of Biology at Caltech will be the founding director of the Center, and the co-director of the center will be Mark Stalzer, executive director of CACR. Three or four additional CACR personnel will also be involved in the application of computational methods and programming to problems in integrative cell biology. Further information on this announcement can be found in the Caltech news release.