Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience

About Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience

According to Wikipedia, The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience is one of the ten interdisciplinary research institutes at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Established in 1995, the goal of the IBB has been to centralize and accelerate Georgia Tech's bio-research efforts. The IBB is a research center for members of the Georgia Research Alliance as well as non-member institutions such as the Morehouse School of Medicine. It also serves as the headquarters for over a dozen biomedical and bioengineering centers that conduct research in areas including pharmaceuticals, cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases, and diabetes, among others.