Solving Grand Challenges at the Crossroads of Biology, Engineering and Computation

In March 2007, when Georgia Tech professors Richard Fujimoto, Jeffrey Skolnick and Eberhard Voit invited colleagues conducting systems biology research to present at a poster session, they expected a few dozen researchers. To their surprise, more than 100 posters were presented that day. “Systems biology is a relatively new field that focuses on complex networks of biological interactions. When we held the workshop, we were really surprised by the enormous interest on the Georgia Tech campus and also by the broad range of research projects presented that day,” says Voit, the David D. Flanagan Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems. Georgia Tech’s move toward By Abby Vogel Systems Biology: