EPA Announces Environmental Bioinfomatics Centers in NC and NJ

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**News Advisory**

For Immediate Release: Monday, October 31, 2005

EPA Announces Environmental Bioinformatics Centers in North Carolina and

New Jersey

Contact: Suzanne Ackerman, 202-564-4355 / ackerman.suzanne@...

(Washington, D.C.-Oct. 31, 2005) EPA has awarded $9 million in grants to

establish two environmental bioinformatics centers that merge computer science,

biology, and toxicology to predict hazardous outcomes and advance the field

of human health and ecological risk assessment. The grants were awarded to

the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at Piscataway.

At 9 a.m. on Nov. 2 at EPA's main campus in Research Triangle Park, N.C.,

information about the grants and EPA's initiative in bioinformatics will be

provided prior to a workshop between the two

university-based centers and EPA.

WHAT: U.S. EPA Environmental Bioinformatics Centers Workshop

WHEN: Wednesday, November 2, 2005; 9 a.m.

WHERE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Main Campus, Building C, Room C111B

Research Triangle Park, N.C.

WHO: Lek Kadeli, Deputy Assistant Administrator for EPA's

Office of Research and Development

Zarba, Acting Deputy Director, EPA

National Center for Environmental Research

J. Welsh, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Center

Director, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey

Fred A. , Ph.D., Bioinformatics Center Director,

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

More information about the U.S. EPA Environmental Bioinformatics Centers

Workshop can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/ncer/events

Journalists may register by contacting Ann Brown, EPA Office of Research

and Development, at

919-541-7818.

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