Professor Andrew Pomiankowski (Genetics, Evolution and Environment), Professor Peter Coveney (Centre for Computational Science/Chemistry) and Professor Alan Johnston (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences) have been awarded a cross-disciplinary EPSRC research grant for a collaborative project between CoMPLEX (UCL) and ComLab (University of Oxford). The project aims to establish a new approach to science at the life science interface. The grant will support a number of interdisciplinary research fellows attached to CoMPLEX’s successful Doctoral Training Centre. The grant begins on 1st April 2011 and will run for 5 years. The EPSRC is contributing £4M and Microsoft Research Cambridge £2M as a third partner, to a total award value of £6M; large scale access to UK national supercomputing resources is also included.