Bioscience and Health
ASU pursues bioscience and biomedical discovery to meet critical global challenges in energy, health, sustainability, engineering and education. ASU’s research enterprise empowers the next generation of scientists, professionals, entrepreneurs and educators through an approach that breaks down the traditional silos between academic disciplines and brings together world-renowned experts to solve these challenges.
The School of Life Sciences serves as an academic hub for interdisciplinary centers, institutes and attracting research talent. Dynamic laboratories, state-of-the-art technologies and a vast expansion of research infrastructure now support more than 2,800 students and 110 faculty members. Many pursue discovery and translational research, providing an entrepreneurial climate to bring the best research ideas to fruition.
ASU has created the nation’s first interdisciplinary research institute devoted entirely to innovations inspired by nature’s grand designs. The Biodesign Institute includes 350,000 square-feet of award-winning, LEED-certified buildings, and is Arizona’s largest investment in infrastructure devoted to bioscience-related research. Our bioscience initiatives are redefining medical research, harnessing cutting-edge technology for the good of the planet, and focusing scientific expertise on the areas of greatest human need.
The health enterprise at ASU includes efforts across the campuses and disciplines, from centers, institutes and academic units, such as the College of Nursing & Health Innovation and College of Health Solutions, to partnerships with Mayo Clinic, Barrow Neurological Institute, Dublin City University and other centers of research, medicine, public service and industry.
The Biodesign Institute includes 350,000 square-feet of award-winning, LEED-certified buildings, and is Arizona’s largest investment in infrastructure devoted to bioscience-related research.
The Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center is home to the ASU's Natural History Collections and connects a range of genomic, evolutionary and ecological data sciences labs, in addition to promoting informatics tools and virtual learning. experiences.
Scientists and engineers with the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems collaborate to develop technologies to offset traumatic injury and neurological disease.
Our mission is to construct a complete system for solar-powered production of fuels such as hydrogen via water splitting. Our design principles are drawn from fundamental concepts in photosynthetic energy conversion.
The mission of the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes is to enable discoveries and solutions to conserve and sustainably manage the Earth's biodiversity.
Creating new frontiers in biological/biologically-based artificial systems to address societal energy needs in sustainable ways, the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis emphasizes solar energy conversion and bio-inspired energy transformation.
The Center for Biology and Society promotes research and education related to study of the life sciences and their interconnections with society.
The mission of the Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology is to create, apply, and disseminate new knowledge of the mechanisms responsible for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.
The Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience brings together ASU faculty, students and research partners to examine the impacts of mindfulness across wide ranges of areas, including studies of social relationships and social justice, neuroscience and aging, wellbeing and immune function.
ASU houses one of 12 national physical sciences-oncology centers sponsored by NIH to examine whether controlling malignancy can be made by scientists outside of the cancer research community.
College of Health Solutions partners to improve health outcomes, lower costs and increase access to have a lasting, positive impact on health locally, nationally and globally.
College of Nursing & Health Innovation produces lifetime learners in nursing and health who are prepared to think critically and succeed in any situation.
ASU researchers in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science study the science of speech, language, and hearing and train scholars, sign language specialists and clinical audiologists who will support societies health and make tomorrow’s discoveries.
The ecoSERVICES Group at ASU studies the environment and biodiversity change in terms of its impacts on the things that people care about.
An interdisciplinary program for training graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in collaboration with the Barrow Neurological Institute and other clinical partners across the greater Phoenix area.
The Mayo Clinic and ASU share a vision to improve all aspects of healthcare delivery through research and collaboration, most particularly in bioinformatics, nutrition and health promotion and biological engineering.
The Mechanisms of Evolution Research Center seeks to decipher the general rules by which evolution proceeds in different phylogenetic lineages.
The Neural Control of Movement Laboratory works to better understand sensory and cognitive connections between the brain and hand, and design, development and testing of next-generation prosthetic hand technology.
The Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center is a research alliance to advance the scientific study, treatement and prevention of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Obesity Solutions Initiative is a transdisciplinary project in partnership with Mayo Clinic and other groups to identify, test and share innovative ways of addressing obesity.
The REACH Institute was established in 2014 to advance research, education and children's health.
At the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, students and faculty push the boundaries of science and medicine.
What is ahead for society can and will be built with some of the world’s most creative scientists, students, educators at ASU and with our global partners.
School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences offers a solid base of scientific and mathematical knowledge, proficiency in scientific inquiry and access to careers that value and apply these skills to life situations.
The primary mission of The Biomimicry Center is to enhance academia’s ability to address a variety of sustainability challenges using strategies inspired by nature.
