Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy (DOE) visited NIMML

Oct 17th, 2012, Dr. William F. Brinkman, Director of the Office of Science at DOE, visited the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML). Lab Director Dr. Josep Bassaganya-Riera presented an overview of the NIMML to the site visit team, including ongoing research focus of the Lab leading the VT Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogensand future large-scale funding plans.

In FY 2009, the Office of Science received $4.758 billion in appropriations with an additional $1.6 billion from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. With these funds, the Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, providing more than 40 percent of total funding for this vital area of national importance. The Office of Science manages fundamental research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science. In addition, the Office of Science is the Federal Government’s largest single funder of materials and chemical sciences, and it supports unique and vital parts of U.S. research in climate change, geophysics, genomics, life sciences, and science education.

About NIMML

The NIMML Institute is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public charity foundation focused on a transdisciplinary, team-science approach to precision medicine at the interface of immunology, inflammation, and metabolism. The NIMML Institute team has led numerous large-scale transdisciplinary projects and is dedicated to solving important societal problems by combining the expertise of immunologists, computational biologists, toxicologists, modelers, translational researchers, and molecular biologists. The Institute is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA. For more information, please visit www.nimml.org or contact pio@nimml.org.