Renowned scientist Dr. Leroy Hood spoke casually with North Central High School students about mitochondrial DNA and planning for a future in science as he toured the school’s Institute of Science and Technology where students are immersed in molecular biology.
“A lot of this science didn’t exist when I was a kid,” said Hood, 81. “I’ve spent most of my career working with kids. It’s nice to connect.”
We’re getting a better idea of how longtime Microsoft executive Craig Mundie is going to spend some of his time after he retires from the software giant next year.
Mundie, the former chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft who now serves as an advisor to Steve Ballmer, was just named to the board of the Institute for Systems Biology.
The classic phrase, “An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away” could soon be abbreviated to “An App A Day Keeps The Doctor Away.”
The top three winners in a $100,000 graph analytics contest held by YarcData (a unit of the supercomputing firm, Clay) all showcased work that seeks to advance medical science.
Healthcare and life sciences applications took the top three spots in a $100,000 contest from YarcData, a unit of supercomputing pioneer Cray, to showcase the power of graph analytics.
“Sequestration” has forced the National Institutes of Health – the leading funder of biomedical research – to halt or cut funding to thousands of potentially groundbreaking research projects. On the 10th Anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, we can’t let the ongoing tug-of-war in Congress over spending priorities threaten the revolutionary work that is taking place in medical science. Quite the opposite, recent advances in science and medicine have the potential to reduce healthcare’s drain on the federal budget and spur economic growth.
ISB associate professor Nathan Price and Evangelos Simeonidis, a visiting scholar from Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB is a major strategic partner with ISB), contributed to this paper – “A community-driven global reconstruction of human metabolism”
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Institute for Systems Biology and AB Sciex today announced a partnership aimed at the development of a new mass spectrometry workflow.
Among the 12 recipients of the 2012 National Medal of Science honored by President Barack Obama was Leroy (Lee) Hood, MD, PhD, president and cofounder of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington. A White House ceremony was held February 1.
On the occasion of Systems Biology president Dr. Leroy Hood being awarded a National Medal of Science from President Obama at a ceremony in the White House, Sapphire Energy’s CEO and Chairman Cynthia ‘CJ’ Warner made the following statement:
