The Biodesign Institute plays a critical role in advancing the research mission of Arizona State University, a comprehensive metropolitan university that is the second largest in the U.S. The Biodesign Institute embodies the guiding principles of the New American University, as defined by Arizona State University President Michael Crow, specifically, to conduct use-inspired research, fuse intellectual disciplines and value entrepreneurship.
The Biodesign Institute seeks to harness the blueprints found throughout the Earth’s 3.8 billion year old patterns of life into bio-inspired innovation. Biodesign is spearheading ASU’s innovative application of bio-inspired research to serve as a model for 21st century academic research. These principles also include an entrepreneurial research culture attractive to scientists uniquely capable of working across disciplines and in close cooperation with industry.
Encompassing 350,000 square-feet of award-winning, state-of-the-art, LEED-certified buildings, the Biodesign Institute represents the State of Arizona’s largest research infrastructure investment in bioscience-related research. ASU is the first university in the U.S. to create an interdisciplinary research Institute entirely devoted to bio-inspired innovation principles, representing a vast expansion of ASU’s state-of-the-art research capacity, and also serving a core mission to engage the talents of its multidisciplinary scientists to find solutions to some of society’s largest challenges.
The three major areas in which The Biodesign Institute is working to make a difference are: biomedicine & health outcomes, sustainability and security. This framework allows the Institute to address these critical global challenges by creating “use-inspired,” as well as “bio-inspired” solutions.
The Biodesign Institute at ASU addresses today’s critical global challenges in healthcare, sustainability and security by developing solutions inspired from natural systems and translating those solutions into commercially viable products and clinical practices.
Each month, innovative research from the Biodesign Institute appears in the world’s premier scientific journals. Many such studies have graced the covers of these journals, showcasing Biodesign research ranging from water remediation to nanometer-scale structures built from DNA.
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