About the Division
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Biological Sciences Division is dedicated to providing basic and applied research to help solve complex national problems. Our approximately 170-member staff conducts fundamental biological research for applications to clean energy, sequestration of carbon, environmental remediation, and the improvement of human health.
Our mission is to be international leaders in systems biology research, utilizing advances in scientific capabilities and instrumentation focused on how cells sense and respond to their environment. The rapid advancement of PNNL's Biomolecular Systems Initiative (BSI) has greatly enabled the BSD to meet national science needs by building a scientific infrastructure that allows researchers to take a systems approach to science in collaborative environments.
In addition, the Biological and Environmental Sciences Product Line offers investigator-initiated and multi-institutional collaborative research, unique scientific instrumentation, and national program leadership to translate the latest scientific discoveries into technologies that are beneficial to the nation.
To surmount the variety of challenges that can be answered by the biological sciences, the BSD has developed research capabilities in Microbiology, Cell Biology, Protein Function, Biological Monitoring and Modeling, Computational Biosciences, Biological Separations and Mass Spectrometry, and Structural Biology and Microimaging.
Harvey Bolton
Director, Biological Sciences Division