(Full disclosure: the author of this post is a proud member of ISB’s administrative team.)
Have you spotted a gaggle of grinning scientists in Lower Wallingford this week? You just might! Wallingford’s own Institute for Systems Biology was ranked #1 in the United States, and 3rd globally, for highest scientific impact of their research papers by the SCImago Research Group in Spain.
The Institute for Systems Biology is an internationally renowned non-profit research institute dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. ISB has assembled some of the best scholars and scientists in the world, from biologists, mathematicians and engineers, to computer scientists and physicists, in an interactive and collaborative environment — right here in lower Wallingford.
The Institute’s impact was rated higher than other US institutes, including MIT, Harvard Medical School, the California Institute of Technology, and other elite research organizations.
Since its founding in 2000, ISB researchers have envisioned the day when their research would lead to:
- the pre-symptomatic detection of disease;
- the development of technologies to repair malfunctioning biological networks that cause disease; and
- medication designed to cure patients before they even have symptoms, rather than wait until someone is noticably ill.
There are lot of things going on at ISB, and there just isn’t enough space here to cover them all. But here are a few recent highlights:
- ISB and Swedish Neuroscience Institute engaged in a partnership to study brain tumors in order to develop advanced treatments that could improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s.
- In 2008, the government of Luxembourg tapped three of the US’ most prominent biomedical science leaders, including ISB, for an unprecedented international collaboration to establish a bioscience center of excellence in the heart of the European Union, and to conduct genetic studies.
- ISB is home to the Center for Inquiry Science, whose mission is to enable educators to produce scientifically literate students.
For more information about ISB, visit http://www.systemsbiology.org.
Read ISB’s full press release at http://www.systemsbiology.org/Press_Release_010610.