The Life Sciences Division is comprised of 58 Principal Investigator level scientists and 282 additional staff members. The annual projected budget FY07 is $54.9M, about 50% of which comes from the NIH.

The mission of the Life Sciences Division is to contribute to strategic Laboratory and National efforts in key human health issues including effects of low level exposure to ionizing radiation, cancer, nuclear medicine, neurodegenerative diseases, and also in bio-fuel production and bioremediation.

This is accomplished by developing multi-disciplinary, multi-divisional and multi-institutional teams to approach problems of scale and/or technical complexity that can best be accomplished in a National Laboratory environment. Laboratory investigators are expected to develop outstanding independent research programs in areas of Divisional strategic emphasis and to actively participate in multi-disciplinary teams.

A new department structure (Org chart) was implemented for the Life Sciences Division in November 2006 in which divisional research is organized into eight departments: Cancer & Systems Biology, Cell Biology & Imaging, Genome Stability, Genome & Computational Biology, Medical Imaging Technology, Molecular Imaging & Neuroscience, Radiation Biosciences, and Structural Biology & GTL.

Efforts are underway to update and re-design this website to reflect this structure and highlight the Division's Scientific Programs. Thank you for your patience.

Joe W. Gray, Division Director