Mathematical Biosciences

The formidable challenges and potential breakthroughs currently emerging in biology, medical research, genomics, and proteomics will strongly influence mathematical innovation in the 21st century. Responding to this scientific tide, the Departments of Mathematics, Biology and Computer Science at UH, the Departments of Computational and Applied Mathematics,   and Statistics at Rice University, the UT Health Science Center at Houston, Division of Nanomedicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, and MD Anderson Cancer Center, have created the Gulf Coast Center for Mathematical Biosciences   that will foster research and educational links between the mathematical sciences on the one hand and the biosciences and medicine on the other.

The main goal is to bring together researchers in applied and computational mathematics and statistics, researchers in biomedical sciences, and clinicians, to define new frontiers and solve problems that require multi-scale modeling and analysis of biological systems with application to clinical medicine, cardiovascular sciences, cancer research and neuroscience. This Center combines mathematical expertise in differential equations, probability and statistics, analysis, scientific computing, and geometry with computational image analysis, data mining and a study of complex biomedical problems that require multi-scale approaches spanning nano-biomedicine, gene interaction networks, evolutionary biology, cell biology, virtual tissue biology, and the physiome.

The Gulf Coast Center for Mathematical Biosciences was established under the auspices of the Gulf Coast Cluster for Mathematical Biosciences.