Department of Integrative Systems Biology

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The Department of Integrative Systems Biology (ISB) is a basic science department within the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The 35 primary faculty of the Department are located at Children’s National Medical Center, within the Research Center for Genetic Medicine. About half of faculty are physician/scientists. Faculty come from many clinical and basic research subdisciplines, forming a synergistic group that shares the focus of improving the health of children in the DC region, and worldwide.

Faculty within ISB work closely with other Departments at GWUMC, and other Centers at CNMC. Prospective PhD candidates are encouraged to apply to the GWIBS program, and the Systems Biology concentration within the Molecular Medicine track.

Department of Integrative Systems Biology

Events

INVITED SPEAKER SEMINAR, Benjamin Purow on May 21st

INVITED SPEAKER SEMINAR, LUIS GARCIA, ON JUNE 12th

INVITED SPEAKER SEMINAR: Diana Bharucha-Goebel on May 4th

Press Releases

MDA Funds Drug Testing Facility at Children’s National

Clinical outcomes consensus workshop held in DC.

Researchers at Children’s National Medical Center have discovered that African American children with asthma in metropolitan Washington, DC, are significantly more likely to have low levels of vitamin D than healthy African American children.

Low levels of vitamin D linked to higher rates of asthma in African American Kids - March 17, 2010

First Treatment for Muscular Dystrophy in Sight: Scientists Harness Exon-Skipping in Large Animal to Successfully Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - March 13, 2009