When launched 10 years ago, ISB was in and of itself a revolutionary concept. It was the first institute in the world dedicated to using systems approaches to unravel complex biological systems, generating knowledge that would enable physicians to diagnose and treat disease prior to the development of symptoms, and some day, prevent disease from occurring at all.

When we launched ISB the scientific community was skeptical of the approach and of enabling biologists, technologists, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, geneticists and others to work side by side to solve biological problems, Hood said. Now practically every elite academic institution in the US is using systems approaches, and scientists around the globe look to our research when conducting their own.

This gift strengthens ISB ™s ability to continue changing the world.

Source Institute for Systems Biology