Guillermo “Willy” Prado, interim executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, Dr. Henri Ford, dean and chief academic officer of the Miller School, and Dr. Stephen Nimer, executive dean for research at the Miller School and director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center announced that as a member of the Association of American Universities and No. 1 in the state for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, the University of Miami has pledged to invest more than $30 million to bolster basic science research to target neuroscience and aging, some of the most complex conditions confronting the United States population, including in South Florida.
The investment over the next five years will create a new program in computational biology within the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and build collaborations across multiple University departments and institutes, including the Department of Psychology, the Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science, and the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing.