Research initiatives
Breaking barriers by working together
Beckman’s interdisciplinary community brings new research projects together beyond our traditional working groups.
Breaking barriers by working together
Beckman’s interdisciplinary community brings new research projects together beyond our traditional working groups.
Beckman's research portfolio spans a variety of topics and disciplines. Teams of researchers, staff members and students come together to understand scientific and technical topics like understanding cells across four dimensions, making speech recognition technology accessible for everyone, democratizing molecular synthesis and understanding how chemicals and environmental factors affect the development of kids' brains.
Read on to learn more.
Center for Label-free Imaging and Multiscale Biophotonics
This center is the hub of a worldwide network of researchers investigating cutting-edge optical imaging and sensing methods. They're also developing novel computational imaging and AI algorithms label-free optical to fuel imaging technologies for clinical applications and basic biological discovery. The National Institutes of Health funds the center.
Center for Label-free Imaging and Multiscale Biophotonics
This center is the hub of a worldwide network of researchers investigating cutting-edge optical imaging and sensing methods. They're also developing novel computational imaging and AI algorithms label-free optical to fuel imaging technologies for clinical applications and basic biological discovery. The National Institutes of Health funds the center.
Illinois Kids Development Study
IKIDS is a prospective birth cohort study in which women are enrolled early in pregnancy. Researchers follow moms and their children from birth through middle childhood to investigate the impact of prenatal exposures to chemicals and other environmental factors on neurodevelopment. The study is part of the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, or ECHO, Program. It's funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Illinois Kids Development Study
IKIDS is a prospective birth cohort study in which women are enrolled early in pregnancy. Researchers follow moms and their children from birth through middle childhood to investigate the impact of prenatal exposures to chemicals and other environmental factors on neurodevelopment. The study is part of the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, or ECHO, Program. It's funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Speech Accessibility Project
Voice recognition technology often has trouble understanding people whoses diseases or disabilities that affect their voices. The Speech Accessibility Project is changing that by recording and annotating the speech of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Parkinson's disease and those who have had a stroke. It will soon begin recruiting people who stutter and those who are Deaf and hard of hearing.
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft fund the project, and the data is open to others who want to make their tech more accessible.
Speech Accessibility Project
Voice recognition technology often has trouble understanding people whoses diseases or disabilities that affect their voices. The Speech Accessibility Project is changing that by recording and annotating the speech of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Parkinson's disease and those who have had a stroke. It will soon begin recruiting people who stutter and those who are Deaf and hard of hearing.
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft fund the project, and the data is open to others who want to make their tech more accessible.
Molecule Maker Lab
The Molecule Maker Lab, located within Beckman, is revolutionizing how we discover and make small molecules — those critical chemical compounds that impact our health, energy, environment, and economy. MML allows anyone, from students to citizen scientists, to design and synthesize functional small molecule that address societal challenges.
Molecule Maker Lab
The Molecule Maker Lab, located within Beckman, is revolutionizing how we discover and make small molecules — those critical chemical compounds that impact our health, energy, environment, and economy. MML allows anyone, from students to citizen scientists, to design and synthesize functional small molecule that address societal challenges.
NSF Science and technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology
The Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology is working to develop 4D (space plus time) whole-cell models and experiments to transform our understanding of how cells function. The center is forging a new scientific understanding of the cell that will have implications for human health, photosynthesis, evolution and beyond. It's also creating Minecraft CraftCell, which allows players to immerse themselves into the cell.
NSF Science and technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology
The Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology is working to develop 4D (space plus time) whole-cell models and experiments to transform our understanding of how cells function. The center is forging a new scientific understanding of the cell that will have implications for human health, photosynthesis, evolution and beyond. It's also creating Minecraft CraftCell, which allows players to immerse themselves into the cell.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology