AXCELL BIOSCIENCES AND INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY TO ESTABLISH PROTEOMICS COLLABORATION
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PRINCETON, N.J. - July 12, 2000 - AxCell Biosciences Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cytogen Corporation has agreed to form a collaboration with the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB), a newly founded research center in Seattle headed by Dr. Leroy Hood. snip<>
Here is a link to an article on Dr. Hood and ISB:
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PAUL SMAGLIK
Paul Smaglik is Nature's Washington DC correspondent.
Is it possible to produce a complete mathematical description of complex biological systems? Leroy Hood thinks so, as Paul Smaglik discovers.
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Under the hood: astrophysicist George Lake (right) will help Leroy Hood assemble the biological equivalent of a virtual car.
Many people in Leroy Hood's position would be resting on their laurels. In the 1980s, while at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he led a team that invented the automated gene sequencer — spawning a multimillion dollar business and helping to lay the foundations for the Human Genome Project. In 1992, believing interdisciplinarity to be the key to progress in biology, Hood convinced Microsoft founder Bill Gates to establish the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington in Seattle. The department united biologists with mathematicians, chemists, engineers, applied physicists and computer scientists, and went from strength to strength — boasting an annual budget of US$35 million by 1998.snip<>
systemsbiology.org OR
nature.com
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