The Stanford Institute for Chemical Biology.

Stanford University has recently launched the Stanford Institute for Chemical Biology (SICB), designed as a partnership between the School of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, and Engineering. The core mission of the Institute is to strengthen the chemical foundations of human biology and to accelerate molecular discoveries that could ultimately transform human health. The Institute will foster an environment for learning across physical science, engineering, biology, and medicine and train future leaders who can traverse traditional disciplinary boundaries to explore problems that advance our understanding of human function. Those working under the aegis of the SICB will profit from an education that connects the time-honored principles of chemical structure, reactivity, and intermolecular forces with the formidable complexity of human biology. Such knowledge and collaboration will enable breakthroughs that transform the laborious, time-consuming, and expensive discovery and developmental processes that slow innovation in molecular science and medicine.