History of IMAG

In April 2003, the Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) was formed; starting from a working group comprised of program staff from nine Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and three directorates of the National Science Foundation (NSF). IMAG now represents over 100 program staff from multiple government agencies in the United States. Since its creation, this group has convened monthly through virtual meetings and at various locations of the IMAG participants.

Multiscale Modeling (MSM) Consortium

IMAG defines multiscale modeling as using mathematics and computation to represent and simulate a physiological system at more than one biological (spatial) scale. Biological scales include atomic, molecular, molecular complexes, sub-cellular, cellular, multi-cell systems, tissue, organ, multi-organ systems, organism, population, and behavior. Multiscale biomedical, biological and behavioral models may include dynamical processes which span multiple time and spatial scales.