The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) at the University of Delaware is a partnership among government, academia and industry with an aim to establish Delaware as a notable hub for biotechnology and life sciences.[1]
| Delaware Biotechnology Institute | |
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| Name | Delaware Biotechnology Institute |
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| Established | January 2001 |
| City | Newark |
| State | Delaware |
| Country | USA |
| Website | http://www.dbi.udel.edu/ |
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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] The DBI laboratory houses more than 180 faculty and students.
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.