$1.8 Million NIH Grant Awarded

Ilya Vakser was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The grant entitled "Modeling of macromolecular interactions in the cell” aims at developing extra-long time scale AI-enabled simulations of live cells at atomic resolution. The project will involve characterization of the intermolecular energy landscapes for different types of macromolecules; simulation of the macromolecular interactions by sampling the energy landscapes; development of public resources incorporating techniques developed in the project; and application of the simulation approaches to molecular systems of biological interest.