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The Biodesign Institute Recruits Environmental Expert


Rittmann bestowed with top civil engineering society, ASU faculty achievement awards


Lindsay receives Regents' Professor honor


Overview

The expertise of the Center for Innovations in Medicine is built on a history of innovation. New efforts are being applied into three major projects.

The first, called genomes to vaccines, aims to create subunit vaccines from pathogen genomes. The researchers’ invention of the gene gun, genetic immunization, expression library immunization and linear expression elements make this goal feasible. With enough of these pathogen-based vaccines, the center aims to discover the rules to predict the best vaccine for any pathogen.

Doc-in-a-box, the center’s second initiative, is to create a household instrument to measure personal biosignatures ... Read more »

Center News

A spoonful of sugar: Scientists discover regulatory details for metabolic gene network

A scientific team from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stony Brook University and the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has found a vital missing link for the regulation of genes essential for cell metabolism. Read More »

Biodesign Institute Leads Innovative Project to Prevent Breast Cancers

Biodesign Institute researchers have received nearly $9 million in grants to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer. Stephen Albert Johnston, director of the institute’s Center for Innovations in Medicine received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense’s Innovator Award. Research colleague Douglas Lake will lead a three-year $1.2 million project from the W. M. Keck Foundation to broaden the technology to several other forms of cancer. Read More »

“Our primary mission is to solve fundamental problems in biomedicine and in doing so help train the next generation of innovators and risk-takers. There are huge opportunities created by the revolution in biotechnology and its expanding interface with other disciplines. Many of these opportunities are but a simple concept away. We are committed to use-inspired science – our projects start with the objective of solving an important problem. But we recognize that such endeavors often open windows to uncover fundamental insights into biology. Therefore we devote ~10-20% of our efforts to follow such opportunities.”

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