IGB's seven Program Areas illustrate the Institute’s commitment to a growing number of multi- and interdisciplinary scientific agendas. The seven program areas are Biomedical Engineering, Evolutionary, Functional, Human and Structural Genomics, as well as Chemical and Systems Biology.

In addition to individual research agendas being pursued in over sixty IGB labs across campus, IGB faculty often collaborate in large interdisciplinary projects. Current such projects include the following:

• Ten laboratories representing bioinformatics, biophysics, chemistry, genetics, molecular biology, NMR and structural biology are collaborating to identify new anti-cancer drugs
  effective against human cancers associated with mutations that inactivate the tumor
  suppressor protein p53. For more information, see the project website:
  http://p53.igb.uci.edu/.
• Researchers from the Institute and the Center for Virus Research http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~bio/cvr/ are working on a major bioterrorism project, which in
  part is creating a diagnostic test for SARS. For more information, see http://www.newu.uci.edu/plain_article.php?id=175.