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What is Systems Biology

Systems biology has ushered in the future of research.  ISB pioneered this approach, which embraces biological complexity and fearlessly sets about deciphering vast amounts of data in order to gain valuable insights and achieve breakthroughs across scientific disciplines. 

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The only true limits to progress are whether we have a critical mass of the right people engaged in ISB’s science, a critical mass of the right collaborators, and a critical mass of the funding required to scale our work across the range of human health and environmental challenges. 

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Philanthropist Carole Ellison created the recently unveiled K. Carole Ellison Fellows in Bioinformatics. “ It’s so exciting to be part of (young researchers’) lives and help them along in their careers,” Ellison said. 

In 2013, Joo was a high school intern in ISB’s Hood Lab.  In 2014, she came back for another internship, this time in the Huang Lab.  Joo has since graduated from the University of Washington with a Biochemistry and Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology double major, and now she’s working at Seattle Children’s Research Institute Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies in the Miao Lab. 

Prior to joining ISB’s faculty, Dr. Wei Wei earned his Ph.D. from Caltech and served as a faculty member at UCLA Medical School.  In this Q&A, Wei discusses his research career to date, how research might change over the next decade, and much more. 

Microsoft Research recently deployed a video crew to come to ISB to speak with our researchers about proteomics and sharing peptide data.  A story featuring the video was published on the Microsoft Research blog. 

Members of the Moritz lab, as part of an international consortium centered in Bolzano Italy, reports this week in Cell, “Current Biology”, a multi-omic approach to identify the stomach contents and microbiome of the 5300 year old Mummy, Oetzi, the Iceman from the Oetzal Alps on the Austrian/Italian border. 

The Institute for Systems Biology has created the ISB Foundation, which aims to implement fundraising programs to appeal to individual donors and foundations, provide support for capital expenditures for equipment or building additions, grow the ISB endowment, and create new endowed positions and programs.