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The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is an innovative research institute using cutting-edge genomic practices to tackle large-scale global challenges currently facing humanity.

Food security for a growing population. Effective therapeutic drugs and antibiotics. Automated synthesis of new molecules and proteins. Using a team-based, collaborative science approach, researchers at the IGB are addressing these and other complex issues. Our main areas of research below are each supported by our strong commitment to fundamental science – the pursuit of discovery.

Health & Wellness

Health +
Wellness

How the genome enhances, affects, or disrupts physical and mental wellbeing.

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Technology & Socety

Tech +
Society

Advancing our capability to shape the world and capacity to understand each other.

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Agriculture & Energy

Ag +
Energy

Sustainably feeding and fueling a planet impacted by a changing global climate.

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Outreach & Public Engagement

Outreach &
Public Engagement

Encouraging the public to understand how genomics affects daily life and society.

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Mobile Science Learning Lab

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Featured Stories

The most effective way to harness the power of artificial intelligence when screening for breast cancer may be through collaboration with human radiologists — not by wholesale replacing them, says new research co-written by Mehmet Eren Ahsen, a professor of business administration at Illinois. Photo by Fred Zwicky
The research team included, back row, from left, Shih-I (Harry) Tan, Nilmani Singh, Aashutosh Boob, and front row, from left, Teresa Martin, Li-Qing Chen, and Huimin Zhao. / Julia Pollack
Karn and Laukaitis show that rather than being uniquely mammalian, secretoglobins are also found in turtles, crocodilians, lizards and birds, suggesting they existed in the Carboniferous period. / Bob Karn
Kaitlyn Sommer (left) and Ryan Dilger (right)
Research leader D.K. Lee
The four new members are, from left: Paul Braun, Antoinette Burton, Aida El-Khadra and Jonathan Sweedler. Photos courtesy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign