About

Poste Portrait

Dr. George Poste
CASI Co-Director
Chief Scientist
Regents' Professor and Del E. Webb Chair in Health Innovation

1475 N. Scottsdale Rd
SkySong – Suite 361
Scottsdale, AZ 85287-3538
P 480-727-8662
F 480-965-2765
george.poste@asu.edu
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Dr. George Poste, is Chief Scientist, Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI). From 2003 to 2009 he directed and built the Biodesign Institute at ASU. In addition to his academic post he serves on the Board of Directors of Monsanto, Exelixis, Caris Life Sciences and the Scientific Advisory Board of Burrill and Co. and Synthetic Genomics. From 1992 to 1999 he was CSTO and President, R&D of SmithKline Beecham(SB). In 2004 he was named as ‘R&D Scientist of the Year’ by R&D Magazine, in 2006 he received the Einstein award from the Global Business Leadership Council and in 2009 received the Scrip Lifetime Achievement award voted by the leadership of the global pharmaceutical industry. He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society, the Royal College of Pathologists and the UK Academy of Medicine, a Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and the US Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats. He also serves on several US government panels related to biosecurity and national competitiveness.

Van Der Leeuw Portrait

Dr. Sander van der Leeuw

CASI Co-Director
Director, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Dean, School of Sustainability

800 S Cady Mall
Tempe, Arizona 85287
P 480-965-6214
F 480-965-8087
vanderle@asu.edu
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Dr. Van der Leeuw’s work focuses on the role of invention and innovation in society. He and his research team investigate how invention occurs, what the preconditions are, how the context influences it, and its role in society. An archaeologist and historian by training, Dr. Van der Leeuw has studied ancient technologies, ancient and modern man-land relationships, and Complex Systems Theory. He has done archaeological fieldwork in Syria, Holland, and France, and conducted ethno-archaeological studies in the Near East, the Philippines and Mexico. Since 1992 he has coordinated a series of interdisciplinary research projects on socio-natural interactions and modern environmental problems. The work spans all the countries along the northern Mediterranean rim. Dr. Van der Leeuw is an External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute and a Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. He teaches courses on the ethnography of innovation.

Barker Portrait

Dr. Anna Barker
CASI Co-Director
Professor and Director, Transformative Healthcare Networks

1475 N. Scottsdale Rd
SkySong – Suite 361
Scottsdale, AZ 85287-3538
P 480-884-1630
F 480-965-2765
anna.barker@asu.edu
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Dr. Barker, along with Co-Directors Dr. Sander van der Leeuw, and Dr. George Poste, will launch new research in CAS-Knowledge Networks and a workshop series on Complex Adaptive Systems. Dr. Barker served as the Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and as the NCI’s Deputy Director for Strategic Scientific Initiatives from 2002 until her retirement in August, 2010. She was a member of the NCI’s Executive Committee and participated in all aspects of strategic planning, decision making and program implementation to achieve the NCI’s mission. Dr. Barker led the planning, development and implementation of a number of strategic scientific and advanced technology initiatives and novel partnerships that emphasize innovation, trans-disciplinary teams and convergence of scientific disciplines to enable progress against cancer. These programs also stress the synergy of large scale and individual initiated research, precompetitive research and public databases and translation of discoveries into new interventions to detect, prevent and treat cancer more effectively.

Additional Contacts

Dr. Carolyn Compton, MD, PhD
Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI)

Chief Medical Officer, National Biomarker Development Alliance
Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
SkySong | 1475 N. Scottsdale Rd, Suite, 361
| Scottsdale, AZ 85257
| 480-884-1636
Carolyn.Compton@asu.edu
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Dr. Kenneth Buetow, Professor,
Director, Computational Sciences and Informatics, CAS
ISTB-1, 550 East Orange Street, PO Box 874804, Tempe, AZ 85287-4804
P 480-727-9413
F 480-727-0709
Kenneth.Buetow@asu.edu
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Dr. Manfred D. Laubichler,
President's Professor
Director, Evolutionary Theory Core, CAS@ASU
P 480-965 5481
F 480-965 8330
Manfred.Laubichler@asu.edu
https://devo-evo.lab.asu.edu