History of T-10

T-10 was founded in 1974 by George I. Bell, a student of Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. The founding vision for T-10 was to apply the special expertise of physicists at LANL to solve problems in immunology, providing a theoretical research direction to complement the scientific community's mostly experimental efforts.

T-10 remains one of the largest research groups in the world devoted to mathematical and computational analysis of problems in cellular and molecular biology. T-10 also played a key early role in the Human Genome Project, establishing the GenBank sequence database. T-10 has a long and distinguished history, including a record of close collaboration with leading experimental laboratories, and an even more promising future. T-10, with its experienced group of computational biologists and bioinformaticists, is uniquely prepared to address the theoretical and computational aspects of the 21st century's grand challenge: unraveling the intricacies of the cell machinery. These theoretical and computational issues are becoming increasingly important as the field of biology matures.