Advanced research topics in the Centre are chosen on the basis of excellence and innovative potential. The Centre chooses its directions strategically, for it is driven to be at the leading edge of key questions confronting science, technology and society at large. It leaves its principal investigators free to pursue more individual curiosity-driven research independantly, whilst supporting their efforts with all of its infrastructure and administration.  Invariably all programs are truly interdisciplinary, involving a true merger between the biological, physical, engineering and medical sciences.