Fact sheet
Forging a healthier future
The Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University accelerates innovations in medicine by bringing evolutionary insights into health and disease.
Taking interdisciplinary research to new heights
The center is at the forefront of cuttingedge research at local, national and global levels. With research being conducted all over the world—from Australia to southern Africa—ASU researchers are leading innovative and crucial work to combat rising global health concerns.
Uncovering mechanisms behind cancer treatment resistance
A $142 million grant that was announced for a team of researchers in a multiuniversity collaboration will help develop new computer tools to better predict how cancer grows and changes.
Setting the standard of evolutionary biology labs and research
The center uses an understanding of both past and present, from ancient diseases to modern health challenges, to better approach issues of an increasingly urbanized world. Through the analysis of the interconnectedness of human, animal and environmental health and the use of data-driven connections between genetics and external exposures, scientists are coming together to conduct revolutionary research for a healthier tomorrow.
investigates optimal strategies for containment of antimalarial resistance in malaria parasites and insecticide resistance in disease-transmitting mosquitoes while optimizing disease control.
studies wild primates to understand how infectious diseases shape the ecology and evolution of their hosts. The Schneider-Crease Lab
uses molecular genetic techniques to examine dynamic interactions between social environments and genomes to better understand the fitness of consequences of behavioral variation.
researches fundamental concepts in neoplastic progression to develop better methods for cancer prevention and therapy. The Maley
focuses on the impact of environmental conditions like parasites, pathogens, food availability and social interactions and the effects they have on human health.
New insights on cold and flu season
An ASU study focused on baby gelada monkeys based in Ethiopia is providing critical context to the evolutionary and ecological origins of the human immune system through social interactions.
Investigating aging and chronic inflammation
A 2025 publication shed light on health and aging processes for humans before modern-day influences in the Bolivian Amazon, finding the healthiest hearts and lowest rates of Alzheimer’s and dementia in the world.
The Huijben Lab
Lab
The SMack Lab
The Trumble Lab
Change the future with the Center for Evolution and Medicine
The center brings leading scientists to ASU to join existing faculty in research that demonstrates the power of evolutionary biology to address problems in medicine and public health. The new courses and degrees created will begin to meet the growing demand for such experiences, and will educate a generation of future researchers and health professionals.
Academic units
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
School of Life Sciences
Department of Psychology
evmed.asu.edu
The Center for Evolution and Medicine aims to improve human health by establishing evolutionary biology as an essential basic science. Your generosity allows all students, especially those facing financial restraints, to engage in a series of enrichment opportunities such as lectures and internships, and helps the center elevate its academic enterprise through funding for professorships and endowed chairs, faculty fellowships and early-stage career support.
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– Anne Stone Director and Regents Professor, Center