"Organisms function in an integrated manner -- our senses, our muscles, our metabolism and our minds work together seamlessly. But biologists have historically studied organisms part by part and celebrated the modern ability to study them molecule by molecule, gene by gene. ISB is devoted to a new science, a critical science of the future that seeks to understand the integration of the pieces to form biological systems."
David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate, President, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.