Institute for Advanced Studies in Life Sciences
Descripción general
El Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias de la Vida se basa en una premisa simple pero poderosa: que para brindar respuestas efectivas a los principales problemas científicos en las ciencias de la vida que enfrentan los investigadores hoy en día, debe haber una integración mucho mayor entre la investigación científica pura y las humanidades.
Mission Statement
The real unity is to be achieved by a common sense of intellectual purpose – by actual projects, by reminders that we really are working on related matters, not diverging into two cultures of techies versus fuzzies. We ought to aim at integration that respects the values of existing disciplines, however, not on the expense of having a whole which is less the sum of its part though; what we aim at is Breadth without Dilettantism.
Mensaje del Director
When defining academic communities, the interesting dividing line, following C. P. Snow, is “not what the humanities share that distinguishes them from science, instead, one that cuts across departments and disciplinary matrices.” It divides people busy conforming to well-understood paradigm boundaries, from community of people trying to expand their own moral imagination, to enlarge the sense of what is possible and important - at the expense of living with uncertainty.
Aviv Bergman, PhD
Estructura/Organización del Instituto
Science advances by employing both precision, that is critical for data collection and analysis, as well as holistic thinking that is key to creating broader ties across disciplines. The Institute aims at balancing precision with a holistic, generalist approach, with the goal to lead a more robust scientific inquiry, specifically in the biomedical sciences.
Dean Yaron Tomer, M.D.
Contáctenos
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
