Funding approved for research projects involving UC Berkeley, Cambridge and the National University of Singapore
Funding approved for research projects involving UC Berkeley, Cambridge and the National University of Singapore
The projects supported under this first call show the many ways in which our joint resources will let us tackle global problems more effectively.
Prof Chris Abell
An alliance between the University of California Berkeley, the University of Cambridge and the National University of Singapore has moved into its next phase following the first joint call for research proposals and the approval of five inaugural projects.
The successful proposals, in the areas of “Cities”, “Precision medicine” and “Smart systems”, will be supported through a joint fund of £723,900 –including a contribution of £301,000 from the University of Cambridge.
These are the first projects set up under the auspices of the Global Alliance, a partnership between UC Berkeley, Cambridge and NUS formalised at the end of 2015.
The aim of the partnership is to promote collaborative and multidisciplinary research on a global scale.
Its focus is on finding solutions to global challenges that cannot be solved by a single institution, or even through bilateral collaboration.
Prof Chris Abell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Cambridge, said:
“The projects supported under this first call show the many ways in which our joint resources will let us tackle global problems more effectively. They are the first in a series of research collaborations that will allow our three institutions to work together for the global good.”
The five successful projects were:
- “Toward an open and secure internet-of-things reference platform” (Cambridge PI: Prof Simon Moore)
- “Modelling interacting high-dimensional phenotypes – Kronecker Products for imaging, genetics and imaging genetics” (Cambridge PI: Prof John Aston)
- “Mathematical and statistical theory of imaging” (Cambridge PI: Dr Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb)
- “Smart design: human-centric planning of urban districts” (Cambridge PI: Prof Koen Steemers)
- “Translucent city” (Cambridge PI: Dr. Ruchi Choudhary)
Funding for the five projects will be released between November 2016 and February 2017.
A further call for proposals will be published in May 2017 (deadline September 2017).
For more information, contact Dr Kata Fülöp, International Strategy Office, Kata.Fulop@admin.cam.ac.uk
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