Ground broken for new medical research instituteBy Joe Stuteville | |
 Photo courtesy of IUSM Office of Public and Media Relations A groundbreaking for the NEW $27 million research institute at the IU School of Medicine Nov. 3 brought (front row, left to right) IU trustees Fred Eichhorn, Steve Backer and Steve Ferguson to assist IU President Myles Brand, while (sea ted in back, left to right) Gerald L. Bepko, IU vice vice president for long-range planning and chancellor of IUPUI; Dr. D. Craig Brater, dean of IUSM; and Dr. Paul Stark, who along with his wife, Carole Stark, endowed the Stark Neurosciences Research Ins titute, await a ceremonial turn at the shovels. In the background is J. Terry Clapacs, IU vice president for administration. The new research institute will house the Stark facility, the Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging and the Walther O ncology Center. | The future of medical research and all that it promises for patient care took a major step Nov. 3 with the ceremonial groundbreaking of the $27 million Indiana University School o
f Medicine (IUSM) Research Institute.
The Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, the Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging and the Walther Oncology Center are the intended occupants of the 66,000-square-foot facility to be located on the IU Medical Center campus in Indianapolis.
“The new laboratories will magnify our faculty’s basic medical research capabilities,” said Dr. D. Craig Brater, dean of IUSM. “What is most significant is that quality medical education and top-notch medical care are best built on the foundation of resea rch.”
The Stark Neurosciences Research Institute will house researchers from many disciplines, including neurology and medical and molecular genetics. The Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging is funded by grants from Indiana’s 21st Century Researc h and Technology Fund and a National Cancer Institute planning grant of nearly $2 million for the In-vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center.
Faculty from Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame universities, as well as scientists from relevant medical industries, also will be involved in research at the biomedical facility, which will serve as the focal point for transferring technology to the priva te medical sector.
The Walther Oncology Center is a partnership program between the Walther Cancer Institute and IUSM. The center focuses on the cellular, biochemical and molecular biology of cancer.
Read more about the facility at: http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_00/iusm_resinstitute00.htm
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