CoMPLEX is UCL’s centre for interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. It brings together life and medical scientists with mathematicians, physical scientists, computer scientists and engineers to tackle the challenges arising from complexity in biology and medicine. 

CoMPLEX Annual Meeting 2009
This year's CoMPLEX meeting focuses on the central role of imaging in the biological and life sciences, across the whole range of disciplines and scales. Join us on Friday 18 December 2009. Read more >

News
Samantha Lee, from UCL CoMPLEX has just returned from her visit to the Hughes lab at the Montana State University. During her stay, she contributed to the creation of a FRET-based sensor of peptide secretion. To find out more about Samantha’s exciting trip to the United States, head to the Case Studies section of the CoMPLEX website. Read More >

CoMPLEX Seminars


CoMPLEX runs a series of interdisciplinary research seminars throughout the year, and an annual workshop in the autumn. Next Seminar: 24 November 2009 - Robust Inference for Systems and Synthetic Biology - Prof. Michael Stumpf (Imperial)

Doctoral Training Centre
CoMPLEX runs a Doctoral training programme “Modelling Biological Complexity”. This is funded by major grants from the EPSRC and BHF, with additional funding from MRC, BBSRC, NERC, CRUK, SAHFOS and UCL. There are already more the 50 students in the programme, and for the 2009 entry we will be recruiting 15 home and European students. We also welcome applications from Overseas students. Applications for MRes/PhD are now open for 2010/11.


BHF-funded interdisciplinary cardiovascular initiative
The British Heart Foundation has provided support to CoMPLEX for the application of mathematical and physical techniques to problems in cardiovascular biomedicine. Cardiovascular disease is the major killer in the western world and is increasingly a problem as emerging nations adopt western lifestyles and life expectancy rises.  UCL has immense strengths across all areas of cardiovascular biomedicine, from molecules and embryos to population science.

CoMPLEX Researchers
CoMPLEX supports the research of over 100 scientists in UCL who are drawn from 29 Departments and Institutes across UCL. We also have many links to Universities and Institutes in the London area and beyond. We are always looking for new collaborations and encourage your participation. For CoMPLEX announcements, news and details of seminars, join our mailing list. If you are interested in getting involved in our PhD programme or have queries concerning research collaboration, please send an email message to the office or contact a member of the CoMPLEX Management Committee.


Research Fellowships in CoMPLEX.
We encourage applications for early-career Newton Fellowships for international researchers (UCL success this year) and other Research Fellowships to be held in CoMPLEX.


Vision@UCL
Vision @ UCL is a new inter-faculty network linking together individuals, groups, centres and departments that contribute to research in vision, as a biological process, as a medium and as a technology. A list of events can be found here.

Biosystems Network
Funding for a new interdisciplinary centre in systems biology has recently been announced by the Provost. The UCL Systems Biology has been launched to coordinate and strengthen interdisciplinary systems-biology research across UCL.

UCL Doctoral Training Centres
The CoMPLEX Doctoral Training Centre is the original of nine DTCs run by UCL. See this link for further information about these Centres and Studentships that they offer."