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OREGON
WASHINGTON
Seattle
Baker
Lab (U of Washington)
 Institute
for Systems Biology
The Institute for Systems Biology was founded to play a vital role in
shaping the future of biology and medicine, uniting specialists from varied
fields to create the methods and technologies researchers need for the
21st Century. The Institute's mission is to carry out a new approach to
biology termed systems biology and to develop the tools necessary for
these pioneering approaches. The Institute will initially focus on systems
approaches to the immune system; the correlation of genomic variability
with physiology and disease predisposition; the detailed analysis of a
model micro-organism; and the study of diseases such as cancer, heart
disease and auto-immunity. The Institute's founding team is led by Dr.
Leroy Hood, former William Gates III Professor of Biomedical Sciences
at the University of Washington, who founded the University's Department
of Molecular Biotechnology in 1992. Dr. Hood's laboratory has evolved
over the past three decades toward a view that systems biology is the
key to understanding the biological codes that shape the development and
differentiation of cells and organisms.
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