NGI-NCSB Programme

NGI approved a € 15M grant to the Netherlands Consortium of Systems Biology; the total budget - including matching - amounts to € 30M. The programme allows for an investment of 300 men.years of human capital over a period of 5 years until 2013.

The consortium comprises eight partners:

1. CGC: Cancer Genomics Centre
2. CBSG: Centre for BioSystems Genomics
3. CMSB: Centre for Medical Systems Biology
4. KC: Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation
5. NBIC: Netherlands BioInformatics Centre
6. NISB: Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology
7. TIFN: Top Institute for Food&Nutrition
8. TIP: Top Institute Pharma.

NISB is setting up a coregroup on Biomodelling and Biosystems Analysis with a research budget of € 3M. NISB also acts as coordinator for this grant programme.

Full information on this programme may be obtained through the NCSB website at www.ncsb.nl.