UNC Charlotte will support the new campus with expertise in bioinformatics, research in nutrition and health behavior and education.
The same data-mining applications and logarithms used to handle financial transactions in Charlotte’s large banking industry are also applicable to biological data, says Dr. Larry Mays, director of the university’s new Bioinformatics Center.
UNC-Charlotte, the City of Kannapolis and Rowan-Cabarrus Community College are already partnering to train workers for some of the 5,000 technology jobs projected to be created at the North Carolina Research Campus, now under construction on the site of the former Pillowtex textile plant.