Established in the summer of 2002, the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine (CBGM) at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) was developed to promote interdisciplinary research in genomics,proteomics and bioinformatics. The center provides state-of-the-art facilities for microarray analysis, proteomics and computational technologies.

The Center’s current research efforts focus on autoimmunity and immune tolerance, diabetes and its complications, and cancer proteomics. The Center currently has eight tenured or tenure-track faculty members and over 60 scientists and staff members with an annual extramural funding of approximately $8 million. The center continues to recruit independent investigators with expertise in diverse disciplines such as genomics, proteomics, immune tolerance, robotics, automation, chemistry, statistics and computational biology. This multidisciplinary approach provides an avenue for investigators to interact and stimulate novel ideas.