Delaware Biotechnology Institute

Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Name	Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Established	January 2001
City	Newark
State	Delaware
Country	USA
Website	http://www.dbi.udel.edu/

The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) at the University of Delaware is a partnership among government, academia and industry to help establish the First State as a center of excellence in biotechnology and the life sciences.^[1] The Institute's mission is to facilitate a biotechnology network of people and core instrumentation to enhance existing academic and private-sector research, catalyze unique cross-disciplinary research and education initiatives, and to foster the entrepreneurship that creates high-quality jobs.

Adjacent to the University of Delaware main campus, DBI's 72,000 sq ft (6,700 m²) research facility is located in the 40-acre (160,000 m²) Delaware Technology Park,^[2][3] home to a range of established and new technology businesses. The DBI laboratory houses more than 180 faculty and students, allowing for valuable collaborations and the opportunity to share the institute's professionally managed core instrumentation centers.

Research at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute has application in agriculture, environmental science, and human health, featuring leading-edge work in bioinformatics, genomics and small RNA biology, materials science, molecular medicine and proteomics.

Partner Institutions

• University of Delaware
• Delaware State University
• Delaware Technical & Community College
• Wesley College
• Christiana Care Health System
• Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

Core Facilities

As a key component of being a center of excellence in life science research, DBI provides state-of-the-art professionally managed shared research instrumentation.^[4] A broad range of core instrumentation is located within DBI, along with personnel experienced in equipment usage. Other core instrumentation located across the UD campus may also be accessed by faculty.

• Bioimaging, Dr. Kirk Czymmek, director (DBI)
• Bioinformatics, Dr. Cathy Wu, director (DBI)
• Center for Translational Cancer Research, Dr. Rebekah Helton, research coordinator (Wolf Hall)
• DNA Sequencing and Genotyping Facility, Dr. Bruce Kingham, director/associate scientist (Allen Lab)
• Growth Chambers (DBI)
• Protein Production Facility, Dr. Yu-Sung Wu, director (DBI)
• Proteomics Mass Spectrometry Facility, Dr. Kelvin Lee, director (DBI)
• Proteomics Facility, John Dykins, coordinator (Brown Laboratory)
• Structural Biology, John Dykins, coordinator (Brown Laboratory)
• Transgenic/Chimeric Mouse and Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Core Facilities, Dr. Catherine Kirn-Safran (Wolf Hall)

References

1. ^ An introduction to the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and Delaware EPSCoR Video
2. ^ Delaware Technology Park
3. ^ DBI groundbreaking announcement
4. ^ Dr. Kirk Czymmek introduces the core centers at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute Video

External links

• Delaware Biotechnology Institute official site
• Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology official site
• Delaware Environmental Institute official site
• Science, Ethics, and Public Policy official site
• University of Delaware official site