Institute for Biomimicry and Planetary Health
/ Develum Institute

For every problem we face,
nature has already found a solution

An independent research institute translating four billion years of biological evolution into diagnostics, therapeutics, biomaterials, and the infrastructure to deliver them.

/ One biological model

Diagnostics. Therapeutics. Ecological intelligence. All read from one biological system

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Ecology and immunology of disease

Infectious diseases are immune events in the human host and ecological signals from the environment. We read them at both scales, applying multiomic studies on clinical samples to build cell atlases of infection, and tracking ecosystem imbalances as early indicators of outbreaks.

Systems immunologyDiagnosticsOne HealthVector ecology
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Develum was founded by Veronica Duran-Mejia, PhD. See profile →