Disease Focus Areas
Although scientific advances have yielded life-saving medical treatments, there are still no cures for—and a lack of basic knowledge about—many debilitating diseases that affect millions worldwide.
SRI's experts in bioscience, imaging technology, and genetic engineering are making significant headway in understanding the environmental and genetic factors contributing to diseases. This knowledge holds the promise of more targeted and effective treatments. SRI researchers devote their efforts to finding cures for some of the world's most serious diseases and conditions, such as:
Identification of Cell-Specific Biomarkers
SRI’s Brown Laboratory is using selected peptides as “fishing hooks” to identify novel cell surface features.
Targeted Immunotherapies for Cancer
SRI's Brown Laboratory is taking multiple approaches to develop effective anti-cancer immunotherapies.
Delivering Therapeutics to Intracellular Targets
SRI’s Brown Laboratory is utilizing cell-targeting peptides to deliver active therapeutic cargo to specific cells in vivo.
Vitamin A Biosynthesis in Probiotic Bacteria
Vitamin A deficiency causes susceptibility — especially in children — to diarrhea-causing infections, which lead to millions of deaths each year. SRI is developing a probiotic that produces the vitamin.