PrincetonUniversity          Shirley Tilghman, Howard A. Prior Professor of the Life Sciences, will oversee planning for and then serve as the first director of a new multidisciplinary Institute for Genomic Analysis at Princeton that will do pioneering research into fundamental questions in biology requiring the integration of large amounts of complex information. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the Royal Society of London, Tilghman was one of the architects of the national effort to map the entire human genome.      The institute will be unique in applying the perspectives and analytical tools of fields such as physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and engineering--fields that have experience in managing complexity and problems of integration--to what Tilghman describes as an "avalanche of new information in genomics and structural biology that poses fundamentally new challenges for biologists." (Photo by Denise Applewhite) More... • Prof. Tilghman home page        University home | Caption page archive | Communications Office | Web page feedback