About Us
Data-driven Innovation in the Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.
NCEMS is a national resource synthesizing diverse data to gain new insights and understanding of emergent properties in complex molecular and cellular systems.
Our center is physically housed at The Pennsylvania State University with cyberinfrastructure provided by CyVerse at the University of Arizona – but most participants in research and activities are spread around the country and world. We leverage existing data and bring together diverse expertise, perspectives, and computational and human resources to tackle the largest and most transformative synthesis questions.
At Penn State, NCEMS benefits from the support and resources of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS). NCEMS sits under and reports to the Huck Institutes; Huck provides critical administrative support to NCEMS leadership and center initiatives and oversight. ICDS provides a range of support, with the most prominent being NCEMS use of ICDS’s pool of staff scientists through the RISE team that gets matrixed out to meet the growing and varying research needs of NCEMS participants.
Our Mission
We support community-scale synthesis and integration of existing molecular and cellular data to:
- Stimulate novel questions
- Answer long-standing puzzles
- Develop innovative research and analytical strategies
- Tap diverse new talent
- Test novel organizational models with open science principles
- Train a future workforce
Creating Inclusive Communities that Inspire and Empower
We believe in inclusivity and fairness and strive to create team environments where all people and ideas are welcome.
Transparency at NCEMS
NCEMS aims to be a leader in transparent governance and community accountability paralleling the spirit of open science research.
