Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

GR/N04324/01

Title:

NETWORK: ENGINEERING VIRTUAL TISSUES AND ORGANS

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Kohl, Dr P	Murray, Professor A	Broomhead, Professor D
Clayton, Professor RH	Biktashev, Professor VN	Murray, Professor A
Harrison, Professor RG	John, Professor NW

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Department:

School of Biomedical Sciences

Organisation:

University of Leeds

Scheme:

Standard Research (Pre-FEC)

Starts:

01 April 2000

Ends:

30 September 2002

Value (£):

51,943

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Development (Biosciences)	Image & Vision Computing
Modelling & simul. of IT sys.	Theoretical biology

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Healthcare

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

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Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

Information about biological structure and function is so detailed and complicated that any attempt at understanding integrative functions of tissues and organs must be computational. Visualisation of such detailed computational models form virtual tissues. These can be used as research tools, for the virtual screening of pharmaceutical agents, the evaluation of electrical interventions (pacemakers, defibrillators, low frequency EMF effects) and as the knowledge bases for interpreting clinical signals. To date, most progress has been made in the virtual engineering of the heart, but construction of virtual cardiac tissues has been made in the virtual engineering of the heart, but construction of virtual cardiac tissues has been fragmentary, using different data representations and model structures.This network will provide the UK with the opportunity to develop a common computational and visualisation framework within which different groups can work and collaborate in constructing virtual tissue models, from components produced at different sites. Although primarily focussed on the electrical and mechanical activity of excitable, locally interacting tissues, many of the problems, and hence tool specifications, can be generalised to other tissue and organ systems.

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