BLACKSBURG, Va., July 14 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
A computer scientist is combining physics, biology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle some of medicine's most complex challenges, from designing better drugs to understanding how aging may begin deep inside human cells.
Alexey Onufriev, professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Outstanding Investigator Award(MIRA), worth about $2 million over five years, to advance computational modeling research with implications for cancer, age-related disease, and drug discovery.
"Computer science is increasingly most powerful at the boundaries where our tools and methods ...