Center Overview

The Bindley Bioscience Center (BBC) is the Discovery Park Center that blends life sciences and engineering research to cultivate and support innovative, multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research teams at Purdue University. In parallel, the research and development efforts of the BBC foster outside engagement activities that promote economic development initiatives in the life sciences sector of the state, region, nation, and world.

Researchers in the Center already are leading the way in innovative technology developments and applications for proteomic, metabolomic and cellular analysis tools coupled with advanced data management and mining systems to enable discovery and new understanding of biological systems. These innovations are providing the knowledge to enable tools for the prediction, diagnosis and treatments of diseases. Applications of these research tools are opening future opportunities in tissue engineering in an effort to create materials that can mimic, repair and regenerate biological tissues and promote self-healing or for other uses of commercial importance in parallel, new nanoscale technologies are leading to designs for electronic devices that use proteins, DNA, and even living cells to rapidly detect substances in blood, air, water and food.