Simons Investigators in the Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems
FAS Pre-Proposal Deadline: August 12, 2014 by 5PM
Award Amount: $100,000/year for five years.  An additional $10,000 per year will be provided to the Investigator’s department plus 20 percent per year in indirect costs.
Target Faculty: Early Career (appointed on or after August 1, 2010)

The MMLS program aims to support Mathematical-model-based approaches in the life sciences and to foster a scientific culture of theory-experiment collaboration similar to that prevailing in the physical sciences.  A broad spectrum of research areas within the life sciences will be considered, ranging from cellular-level issues of organization, regulation, signaling and dynamics through morphogenesis to the properties of large organisms, as well as neuroscience and evolution.  Preference will be given to areas in which modeling approaches are less established, and for this reason bioinformatics and genomics will fall outside the scope of the program.  In all cases, preference will be given to work that relates closely to experiment, developing models that can explain data, suggest new classes of experiments and introduce important new concepts.