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March 04, 2009

Bioscience / Biotech

08/20/07

Engineering | Students | Bioscience / Biotech:  Biomedical informatics forges new collaborations

Eleven students are breaking ground as members of the inaugural class of ASU’s new biomedical informatics degree program.

07/31/07

University | Bioscience / Biotech:  Green giant: Biodesign Institute goes platinum

ASU’s Biodesign Institute has garnered the highest designation for environmentally friendly design and construction from the U.S. Green Building Council.

07/16/07

Science | Bioscience / Biotech:  Scientific pioneer joins Biodesign Board

ASU’s Biodesign Institute recently named acclaimed cell biologist James Rothman to its advisory board. Rothman is a professor of physiology and cellular biophysics at Columbia University, director and founder of Columbia’s Center for Chemical Biology, and chief scientific adviser and senior adviser for biomedical research at GE Global Research.

07/09/07

Bioscience / Biotech | Research:  Biodesign aims to prevent cancer

Biodesign Institute researchers have received nearly $9 million in grants to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer.

07/05/07

Faculty and Staff | Bioscience / Biotech | Research:  Curtiss named ‘Bioscience Researcher of the Year’

Roy Curtiss of ASU's Biodesign Institute, was named “Bioscience Researcher of the Year” at the third annual Excellence in Bioscience Awards Dinner, held recently and sponsored by the Arizona BioIndustry Association.

06/27/07

Science | Bioscience / Biotech:  Researcher earns bioinformatics award

The highest honor for lifetime achievement in biomedical informatics has been awarded to Ted Shortliffe, founding dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, and a faculty member of ASU's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

06/11/07

Bioscience / Biotech:  Professor makes proteins from scratch

A new Biodesign Institute research team, led by John Chaput, is trying to mimic the process of Darwinian evolution in the laboratory by evolving new proteins from scratch.

06/06/07

Bioscience / Biotech | Engineering:  Grant advances neuroscience project

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a four-year $1 million grant for a research project being conducted in the Neural Microsystems Laboratory in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering.

06/01/07

Bioscience / Biotech:  Alliance aims to boost biomedicine

The Arizona Proteomics Alliance (AZPA), a statewide consortium, has been formed to advance the emergent science of proteomics, a science whose broad vision is to understand the biological role of the complete set of proteins in the human body, or proteome.

05/25/07

Bioscience / Biotech:  Scientists’ studies combat health threats

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002 was a loud wake-up call for researchers studying infectious diseases.