ISB Partners With P&G

The Institute for Systems Biology, a Seattle-based research center, is announcing today that it has formed a new three-year research collaboration with consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (NYSE: [[ticker:PG]]). Terms of the partnership aren’t being disclosed, but the research will focus on how biological systems function in various skin conditions, including skin aging.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.