Gulf Coast Consortia Presentation

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Gulf Coast Consortia Presentation
Dr. John D. Stobo

• February 13-14, 2002

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W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology

• 1990 Founded by a 5,000,000 grant from
  the Keck Foundation to BCM/RU
• 1992 Expanded to include University of
  Houston
• 1998 Expanded to include
  UTHSC-Houston
• 2001 Incorporated into GCC with addition
  of
• UTMB-Galveston and
• MDACC

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Gulf Coast Consortia
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Benefit of GCC

• Creates larger community of scholars with
  complementary expertise
• Enables competition for research and training
  programs (Keck, NLM) not possible otherwise
• Structure for sharing resources equipment,
  expertise
• Mechanism to translate findings into applications
  biotechnology spinoff