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SynthSys recognised at Sustainability Awards

SynthSys was presented with a Silver Lab Award for the second year in a row...

F1000 Recognizes Contribution of a SynthSys PI

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Goryachev who has been awarded “Faculty...

Medical advances accelerated by investment in...

Advances in drug discovery and healthcare will be accelerated by a multimillion...

SynthSys PI wins Synbio Leader Fellowship

Dr Jon Marles-Wright, Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences...

Genetic safety switches for synthetic biology

Dr Patrick Cai of SynthSys and his collaborators have devised a method for...

IGem 2014 - Gold for Edinburgh team!

Congratulations to Edinburgh’s team who won a gold medal at this year...

CH Waddington Building

The CH Waddington building was officially inaugurated in 2009. Image: J. Pelan

SynthSys Laboratory

The SynthSys laboratories house a diverse group of researchers. Image: A. Lee

SynthSys Mammalian

SynthSys Mammalian is a BBSRC/EPSRC/MRC Synthetic Biology Research Centre

Edinburgh benefits from investment in synthetic biology research

UK Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, formally announces funding for a Research Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology.

Sustainability Awards 2015

SynthSys wins Silver Lab Award for the second year in a row

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Our Vision and Mission

The SynthSys Vision

To extend our understanding of genetic and chemical regulation in biological systems and to use this understanding to solve the challenges facing industrial biotechnology, clinical medicine, and agriculture.

The new Centre brings together the expertise required to develop leading-edge, interdisciplinary research with the management needed to translate this research into commercial applications.

The SynthSys Mission

Our mission is to deliver world-leading research in Systems and Synthetic Biology; combining theory and informatics with molecular biology to understand and re-design biochemical systems.

Our focus is to pioneer genetic and chemical tools to manipulate the cell, technologies to quantify responses at the single-cell level, and mathematical models to both predict and control cellular behavior.