Academic Training Programs:

Virology and Gene Therapy

 

The Alliance for NanoSystems Biology is a novel research and educational program formed between the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle. This program brings together scientists and students in biological, physical, engineering and medical sciences as another feature of our effort to integrate systems biology, nanotechnology, large-scale integrated microfluidics, and molecular imaging. The program provides the opportunity for research and educational programs developed between these institutions. The Alliance focuses on fundamental problems in the systems biology of disease, and technologies to accelerate and expand our knowledge of this view of the developmental processes of disease. Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows can work on scientific problems in the laboratory of members affiliated with UCLA, Caltech, or ISB; and research time can be spent entirely or periodically at any of the three institutions to enhance the trainees' education and the diversity of science applied to a particular problem. These educational programs are reinforced by funded research projects that integrate the faculty of these institutions together as colleagues and friends.