Federal Project Grant Award Summary

Brown University received a $1.196 million project grant awarded July 1, 2026, by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859). This Phase 3 renewal of the Center for Computational Biology of Human Disease (CBHD) COBRE supports the consolidation and expansion of Brown's computational biology research infrastructure through September 2031. The award funds three primary deliverables: solidification of the research base for new and established investigators through pilot awards and mentoring; expanded services from the Computational Biology Core (CBC) facility combined with structured mentoring to accelerate manuscript and proposal submissions; and development of a sustainable operational model for the CBC as a permanent component of Brown's information technology portfolio.

The project addresses critical gaps in research capacity by providing investigators with integrated computational biology support and professional development services necessary for analyzing large-scale genomic and 'omics-scale datasets relevant to human disease. Since the establishment of the CBHD COBRE in 2016, the CBC facility has served as the central infrastructure enabling collaboration between basic biologists and data scientists at Brown University and affiliated hospitals. Continued funding under this Phase 3 renewal enables the institution to further advance the discovery of human disease biology while building sustainable institutional capacity in computational biology and bioinformatics.