Allied Institutes & Programs

Data Sciences Institute

Philip Bourne, Director
434-297-7954
Providing access to state of the art computational modeling to support our systems biology approach to synthetic biology.

Global Infectious Diseases Institute

Alison Criss, Director
434-243-3561
Providing access to university, state and federal programs and initiatives linking infectious disease control and eradication to synthetic biology approaches.

Mark Kester, Director
434-982-5892
Providing access to university, state and federal programs including the National Nanotechnology Alliance to link synthetic biology faculty with academic and industrial partners developing engineered cell-based or synthetic nanoscale materials.

Environmental Resilience Institute

Karen McGlathery, Director
434-924-0558
Providing access to university, state and federal resources for development and commercialization of synthetic biology to smart city design, environmental clean-up and agricultural land remediation.