The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB) at the University of Manchester, England has been awarded £6.4M by the BBSRC and EPSRC to pioneer the development of new experimental and computational technologies in Systems Biology, and their exploitation. It is one of six BBSRC Integrative Systems Biology Research Centres in the UK. Through its Doctoral Training Centre, it is also involved in teaching the theoretical and practical aspects of systems biology.
The MCISB is based on the second floor of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB).
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