The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is a powerhouse of fundamental and translational research tackling the most pressing health care and biotechnology challenges facing humanity.

Research Constellations

Led by world-class endowed faculty, constellations bring researchers together to perform multidisciplinary work in key areas of biotechnology.

Research Centers

Multidisciplinary teams of renowned scientists and engineers addressing urgent global challenges.

Core Facilities

Home to 11 state-of-the-art shared research labs equipped to advance multidisciplinary investigations in the life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering.

Research wearing purple gloves reviews a petri dish with blue specimen

Trailblazing Translational Research

Two students working in a lab

Preparing Biotechnology Leaders

Students work with a doctor at Mount Sinai

Forging Public-Private Partnerships

36

Resident Faculty

148

Graduate Students

11

Core Facilities

$18.7

Million in Research Expenditures

Announcements

Frontiers in Biotechnology and NIGMS T32 Seminar Series in Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine: Structural Complexity of Lipid Nanoparticles: Implications for Efficient Delivery of Gene Editing Agents to Cells
Frontiers in Biotechnology and NIGMS T32 Seminar Series in Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine:Bone Regeneration: From Cellular Mechanisms to Testing Novel and Current Therapies to Spaceflight
Frontiers in Biotechnology and NIGMS T32 Seminar Scheduled for September 20th
Frontiers in Biotechnology and NIGMS T32 Seminar Series in Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
Gaetano Montelione Honored as a Visiting Fellow at University of Bologna
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