About CoMPLEX
Background
Launched in 1998 as a virtual centre, CoMPLEX is now based on the Physics Building on the main UCL site. This provides an active and intellectually stimulating environment for students on the CoMPLEX PhD program, for inter-disciplinary seminars and workshops and for research project meetings.
In 2003 CoMPLEX was awarded funding by the EPSRC for the Doctoral Training Centre as part of the EPSRC's Life Sciences Interface Programme. This funding was renewed in 2008. Further funding is provided from a variety of sources, including the the MRC, BBSRC, CRUK, NERC, SAHFOS and UCL currently enables CoMPLEX to fund 13-15 students per year on the CoMPLEX 4 year PhD programme.
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Research
CoMPLEX is a world-class interdisciplinary centre, applying cutting edge techniques in mathematics, physics, engineering and computer sciences to problems in the life sciences and biomedicine. It has recently moved to purpose built premises on Gower Street in the heart of UCL. Our research is organized across the biological scales that contribute to biological complexity:
- Biomolecular Mechanisms
(Imaging, optical and scanning probe approaches to nanoscale bioscience) - Integration of Cellular Function
(Cancer biology, immunology and computational approaches to genomic, metabolomic and proteomic data) - Physiological and Neural Systems
(Systems Biology of physiological systems, biophysics of vascular fluid mechanics, hearing and ion channels, neuroscience of vision and hearing) - Evolution and Dynamics of Populations
(Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics and proteomics, regulation of gene networks, evolution and ecology of populations) - Systems Biology
(A combination of theory and experiment to study the mechanisms underlying complex biological processes) - Special Initiative in Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Research
(Systems biology and networks, advanced imaging & computational analysis, chemical biology)
This diversity exploits the unique breadth of research strength at UCL. In all cases, research projects involve active collaboration between scientists drawn from across the interface of the mathematical and life sciences. There is also a specific, British Heart Foundation funded initiative in the cardiovascular sciences.
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CoMPLEX works with departments across UCL. CoMPLEX members are drawn from 29 Departments and Institutes across UCL. A list of them is provided here. Our students are affiliated with at least one Department/Institute whilst carrying out work for their PhDs.
