Integrative BioSystems Institute
Georgia Tech has created the Integrative BioSystems Institute (IBSI) to explore new technologies and methods to collect and analyze biological information in order to form a more complete picture of how life works and how the environment affects living things. The new institute will be housed in the School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Georgia Tech and Dr. Eberhard Voit, GRA Eminent Scholar in BME will serve as the founding director.
The new institute is expected to provide a research focus for as many as 20 to 30 new faculty members. Integrative systems biology is an interdisciplinary science that studies how complex biological systems react individually, together and with the environment. The new institute will be working to create new devices and techniques for explaining biological systems; analyzing experimental results with methods of engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer science, and using insights from these investigations to attack biomedical tasks.
The research focus of IBSI will be on understanding the development of normal cells into cancer cells, the interaction between humans and microbes in the environment and the development of enabling techniques for analyzing biological systems.
