About Us
The first organizational meeting of the RTK Consortium was held January 17-19,2005, at the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center (GSC), Yokohama, Japan (full list of participants). The Consortium was founded by premier modeling and experimental research groups from the USA, Japan and Europe and will operate globally. These groups have voluntarily committed to form a research consortium, share experimental data and emerging concepts in a timely way, and to make a substantive commitment to its success. Within the Consortium there will be an exchange of experimental data and mathematical models, as well as extensive sharing of human capital, protocols, reagents and technologies. Large-scale experiments will be designed by both the computational and experimental groups. We expect that the mathematical analyses will be motivated by experimental and clinical groups with the aim of producing clinically relevant answers.
The Consortium will be managed by an executive committee, and be assisted by an international advisory board. The ultimate control will be held by a council, which consists of the research leads of all participating groups.
