Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE)

The medical, scientific and engineering communities have experienced a revolution in biology and medicine associated with the ability to determine in detail the genome of humans and many animals and organisms used in biomedical research.

These advances have triggered major efforts to identify the structure and function of the hundreds of thousands of proteins and protein variants that are encoded by tens of thousands of genes.

VIIBRE is distinguished from other more computational and medical programs in system biology by focusing on the development and application of advanced cellular instrumentation.

More broadly, VIIBRE works to strengthen the foundation of biophysical sciences and bioengineering, to develop enabling technologies, with a major thrust being to develop advanced dynamic instruments for post-genomic, quantitative systems biology.

Director: John P. Wikswo Jr.,
Gordon A. Cain University Professor

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