The core constituents will be molecular and cell biology as they relate to hemodynamic forces acting on the cardiovascular system, experimental manipulation of biomechanical and hemodynamic influences on blood vessels, and computational analysis of fluid dynamic and biomechanical factors. Investigators involved in functional genomics. Stanford clearly leads the world in this effort and the opportunities are enormous and varied. Second, biology is driven by evolution so that there are deep relationships between all functional components. Discovering these connections is the very powerful lever that will speed the determination of biological function from genomic data.
Functional genomics is a broad area extending as it does from molecules to medicine.
It will foster the integration of these existing strengths focusing on and eliminating bottlenecks as they occur. Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary area that sits squarely at the interface between cell biology, molecular biology, materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and others. The basic premise is to harness living tissues in a controllable and repeatable manner. Such efforts will bring together clinicians, engineers and basic scientists on campus and will undoubtedly lead to major developments in science.