Scientific agenda for Integrative Biology
The scientific agenda for Integrative Biology includes:
- developing integrated multi-scale whole organ models for some of the most complex biological systems in the clinical and life sciences
- using these models to begin to study the development cycle of cardiac disease and cancer tumours
- bringing together clinical and laboratory data from many sources to evaluate and improve the accuracy of the models
- understanding the fundamental causes of these life-threatening conditions and how to reduce their likelihood of occurrence
- identifying opportunities for intervention at the molecular and cellular level using customised drugs and novel treatment regimes