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Overview
Mission
Our mission is to use biotechnology to improve human health, stimulate economic development and inspire Alabama’s youth to seek careers in science.
Vision
Our vision is of a world-class center that will translate the results of the Human Genome Project into individualized therapies for diseases while providing a bridge between bioscience and entrepreneurship, thereby expanding biotechnology in the Southeast.
Goals:
- To develop high-throughput research tools that focus on why disease occurs and to rapidly apply this knowledge to help patients.
- To establish a biotechnology campus that will be a synergistic cluster of researchers and entrepreneurs.
- To educate the students, teachers and citizens of Alabama to the benefits of biotechnology.
- To enhance Alabama’s reputation, economic status and educational resources.
- To facilitate the sharing of intellectual and physical resources to the benefit of the entire State.
- To provide the challenging and rewarding job opportunities required for our best and brightest to remain in Alabama.
- To connect the state’s strength in basic and clinical research with the institute’s high throughput approach and entrepreneurial environment.
- To inform and inspire teachers, professors and students through summer biotech camps and distance learning programs.
- To help found, nurture and grow Alabama biotechnology firms by providing a supporting, entrepreneurial environment.
- We believe a self-governed institute, affiliated with major research institutions, will provide the energy, inspiration and creative atmosphere to accomplish these goals and objectives.
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