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Agilent Thought Leader ProgramAgilent is increasing mind share and market share among leading academics of our best-in-class life science solutions and analytical instrumentation. With the Thought Leader Program, we select a few very influential thought leaders in well-defined focus areas and we contribute funds, products, and expertise to their research. We demonstrate the role of Agilent's measurement solutions in enabling these advancements. Award Recipients:
Russell S. Thomas, Ph.D., of the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences has been selected for an Agilent Thought Leader Award to support his work developing methods to predict drug-induced liver injury. The award includes funding from the Agilent Technologies Foundation as well as instrumentation from the company, including a 6460 triple quadrupole LC/MS and an Agilent microarray scanner. Dr. Thomas is director of the Institute for Chemical Safety Sciences at the Hamner, where researchers are applying a systems biology approach in an effort to predict drug-induced liver injury. (press release)
Dr. Chris Evelo and the department of bioinformatics at Maastricht University are the recipients of an Agilent Thought Leader Award supporting development of software to integrate different types of biological data. The goal of this award is to help accelerate breakthroughs in disease research by facilitating integrative systems biology approaches. The Evelo Lab helped develop WikiPathways.org as a community-curated platform for structuring multi-omics data and the associated open-access pathway analysis tool PathVisio. (press release)
Dr. Steven Carr of the Broad Institute (affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) has been selected for an Agilent Thought Leader Award. The award will support Carrs efforts to develop new technologies for analyzing proteins and peptides, intended to help doctors diagnose illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and ovarian cancer. (press release)
Dr. Gerhard Wagner of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School received an Agilent Thought Leader award in support of his effort to develop methods for studying biologically relevant systems that pose a serious challenge for modern structural biology tools. Prof. Wagner's work will greatly enhance the impact of NMR spectroscopy for large protein assignment and structure determination by matching the capabilities of modern high-field instruments with suitable acquisition and processing methods. (press release)
Adam Arkin, director of SBI and of the Physical Biosciences Division at LBNL, is the Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Bioengineering. He is also co-director of the Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival, director of bioinformatics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, and co-director of BIOFAB (International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology). His research centers on uncovering the evolutionary design principles of cellular networks and populations and exploiting them for applications. He and colleagues are developing a framework to facilitate applications in health, the environment, and bioenergy by combining comparative functional genomics, quantitative measurement of cellular dynamics, biophysical modeling of cellular networks, and cellular circuit design. (press release)
Dr. Weimer's laboratory group at the School of Veterinary Medicine focuses on microbial physiology and function. Research on host/microbe interactions has led to the elucidation of the competitive binding of beneficial bacteria to the gut epithelium and the resulting displacement of pathogenic bacteria such as salmonella. Using genomics and functional genomics — gene expression, metabolomics, proteomics, and metagenomics — Dr. Weimer's program examines the mechanisms of gene interplay to produce a specific phenotype and the metabolism involved in the process.
Dr. David Botstein, professor and director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and the Center for Quantitative Biology at Princeton University, received an Agilent Thought Leader award in support of his research in the area of genomics. This award of cash funding and Agilent products to the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics will allow Dr. Botstein to produce the most complete genomic, proteomic and metabolomic data sets from any eukaryote (organism with cells containing membrane-enclosed structures including nucleus) to date. (press release)
Dr. Hailu Kinde, professor at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, received an Agilent Thought Leader award in support of his research in the area of food safety. This award of cash funding and Agilent products to the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will allow Dr. Kinde to focus on the development of a new process that can reduce the time required to identify food-borne pathogens from several days to only a few hours. (press release)
Dr. James Collins is developing innovative ways to reprogram organisms, particularly bacteria, to perform desired tasks, such as attacking tumors and guiding development of stem cells. These programmed bacteria could lead to cheaper drugs, greener fuels, and more effective treatments for antibiotic-resistant infections and diseases. He is a pioneer in systems biology, stochastic resonance, biological dynamics, and neurostimulation, with the goal of improving the function of physiological and biological systems. (press release)
Dr. George Church is Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Director of NIH-CEGS and DOE-GTL Genomics Centers. He has pioneered technology innovations early in the development of key fields in chemistry and biomedicine with 10 US Patents granted and several pending. As part of technology transfer to the commercial sector he has served on 22 scientific advisory boards. In 1976, his crystallographic software lead to the first high-resolution folded-RNA structure (a decade before similar structures important for ribozymes, aptamers, and RNAi). (press release)
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