• prevent and cure disease

• overcome the pain and limitations of injury

• renew and sustain our environment

• secure a safer world

Research Mission

Institute Director George Poste

Leading Scientist

• DVM and Ph.D. Virology

• Over 350 publications

• Fellow of the Royal Society

• Honorary Doctorate in Science

CTO and President R&D

SmithKline Beecham

• Brought 29 drugs to market

• Introduced genomics as discovery

tool to pharmaceutical industry

Policy Expert

• NAS working group on non-

proliferation of Bioweapons

• Chair DoD Task Force on

Bioterrorism

• Honorary Doctorate in Law

• Healthcare• Industrial Supply Chain Management• Environmental Sciences• National Security

• Diagnostics• Drugs• Vaccines• Imaging Agents

Biological Systems

“Biosignatures”

Nanoscale Systems

“Biosensors”

• Rehabilitative Medicine• Optimized Brain: Machine Interactions• Novel Educational/ Training Tools

Cognitive Systems“Bionics”

•‘Green’ Manufacturing• Biofuels• Environmental Remediation• Synthetic Biology

Sustainable Systems

“Biofactories”

• Integration

• Biology • Chemistry • Physics• Medicine• Agriculture

• Environmental science• Electronics• Materials science• Engineering • Computing

A Bold New Approach: Key Concepts

• Use-Inspired; translational

• Learning from nature

• 172,000 GSF; 70,000 SF Labs

• $73 Million (ASU capital funds)

• Opened December 2004

• Home to eight research centers and more than 300 researchers (Grants + TRIF)

The Biodesign InstituteBuilding A

• 175,000 GSF; 68,000 SF Labs

• $78.5 Million (Legislative Appropriation)

• Occupancy estimated January 2006

The Biodesign InstituteBuilding B

Cancer Research InstituteYaa-Yin Meng, Acting Administrator

Center for Applied NanoBioscience Frederic Zenhausern, Director

Center for Bioelectronics and BiosensorsJoseph Wang, Director

Center for BioOptical NanotechnologyNeal Woodbury, Director

Center for Environmental Biotechnology Bruce Rittmann, Director 

Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics Sudhir Kumar, Director

Center for Infectious Diseases and VaccinologyCharles Arntzen & Roy Curtiss, Directors

Center for Innovations in MedicineStephen Johnston, Director

Center for Neural Interface Design Jiping He, Director

Center for Protein and Peptide Therapeutics Lokesh Joshi, Director

Center for Rehabilitation Neuroscience and Rehabilitation EngineeringJames Abbas & Ranu Jung, Directors

Center for Single Molecule BiophysicsStuart Lindsay, Director

Biodesign Faculty

Freeze dried potato media

Dr. Arntzen and David Julovich look at freeze dried tomatoes.

Dr. Charles Arntzen inspects tomatoes grown in the greenhouse facility at ASU.

Biologics and Pharmaceuticals

Stroke survivor Bruce J Mitchell gets assistance from RUPERT, a robotic arm that uses repetitive therapy to help stroke victims regain more normal arm function. Physical Therapist Janice Hunt Herman (Banner Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix) supervises.

Dr. Jiping He

Helen Huang simulates reaching for a glass of water while wearing Infrared sensors. This exercise allows researchers to collect biofeedback information on the natural movement of her arm. Researchers then use this insight to simulate natural movement with prosthetic arms.

Neural Interface and Rehabilitation Therapies

• Arizona School of Health Sciences

• Barrow Neurological Institute

• Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center

• Good Samaritan Medical Center

• Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale

• NIDDK Phoenix Indian Medical Center

• Scottsdale Healthcare

• Sun Health Research Institute

• U of A Arizona Health Sciences Center

Clinical Partnerships

• Advanced Bionics

• Flinn Foundation

• Intel

• International Genomics Consortium

• Kinetic Muscles

• Lockheed-Martin

• Medtronic, Inc.

• Motorola

Institutional & Industrial Partnerships

• Northern Arizona University

• Pfizer

• Phase Laser Systems

• Tec de Monterrey

• Translational Genomics Institute (Tgen)

• University of Arizona

• Whitaker Foundation

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