TORONTO'S MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL DOUBLES 3 YEAR TARGET.The Blueprint Initiative, led by Dr. Christopher Dr. John R. Christopher, known popularly as "Dr. Christopher" was one of very few nationally prominent doctors of herbal medicine of the middle third of the 20th century, a "dark ages" of herbalism and was responsible for the herbal renaissance of the 1960s. Hogue of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Ontario, Canada was established in 1985 by an endowment from the Lunenfeld and Kunin families. It comprises 31 principal investigators, has a budget of C$90 million (2005/6), has 225 trainees and over 550 of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai Hospital can refer to:
"When we first set a goal of 80,000 records, I was confident that we could accomplish and even surpass it," said Dr. Hogue, "but I never would have imagined 170,000 records. It's a tribute to the value our colleagues and contributors are finding in the project, and recognition of the incredible work of our team." Blueprint assembles and curates known interactions between biological molecules and enters this data into BIND, a repository of biological data ranging from molecular interactions and small-molecule chemical reactions to interfaces from three-dimensional structures, pathways and genetics interaction networks. In April 2002, Blueprint set out to enter 80,000 interactions into BIND with Genome Canada's CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. $12.5 million investment over three years. By April 8, 2005, Blueprint has delivered more than 173,000 interactions. About The Blueprint Initiative The Blueprint Initiative is a research program of the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute (SLRI SLRI Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute (Toronto) ) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, with an affiliated node in Singapore. Led by principal investigator Dr. Christopher Hogue, Blueprint develops, hosts, and maintains public biological databases and bioinformatics software tools such as BIND, SeqHound, and Distributed Folding. To accomplish these goals, Blueprint has received invaluable support from NSERC NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) NSERC Naval Systems Engineering Resource Center , Genome Canada, ORDCF ORDCF Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund , CIHR CIHR Canadian Institutes of Health Research CIHR Cambodian Institute of Human Rights , the Economic Development Board of Singapore, and corporate partners such as Sun Microsystems and Foundry Networks. For more information on Blueprint, visit http://www.blueprint.org or call 416/596-6266. About The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute Established in 1985, the SLRI at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto is one of the world's leading centres for biomedical research. The Institute is part of Mount Sinai Hospital, an internationally recognized academic health centre affiliated with the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, . SLRI has 513 research, administrative and support staff, 100,000 square feet of laboratory space and a 25,000-square-foot pre-clinical research lab. For more information about SLRI research, visit http://www.mshri.on.ca. About Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai Hospital is recognized nationally and internationally for its excellence in the provision of compassionate patient care, teaching and research. Its key priority programs are Women's and Infants' Health, Surgical Subspecialties and Oncology, Internal Medicine and Subspecialties, and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. It is a University of Toronto-affiliated patient care, teaching and research centre. Visit http://www.mtsinai.on.ca for more information about Mount Sinai Hospital. |
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