Media Relations
Tuesday,
September 9,
2003
Life Sciences
A new Indiana University center specializing in scientific imagery has been open only a few weeks -- and has already acquired a $930,000 National Institutes of Health grant to expand its services. IU is one of only 20 institutions chosen this year to receive an NIH High-End Instrumentation Grant. The IU Light Microscopy Imaging Center (LMIC), based in Myers Hall on the IU Bloomington campus, currently offers seven different imaging systems and is set to acquire an eighth.
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Inspiring and humbling is how D. Craig Brater, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, describes his experiences this summer in Eldoret, Kenya, working at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Brater is providing weekly reports on his experiences in Kenya which are being posted on the IU School of Medicine Web site.
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An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking, connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be key to the workings of both hemispheres of the brain.
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An Indiana University traveling science exhibit that educates children and adults on how genes can affect our risk for particular diseases and disorders, such as alcoholism, cancer, depression, Alzheimer's and osteoporosis, has found a permanent home at the Science Central museum in Fort Wayne, Ind.
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Indiana University and Purdue University announced Thursday (June 19) that they will jointly ask the 2009 General Assembly to create a broad-based research alliance that will help the state grow its bio- and life-sciences industries, improve public health and increase the number of physicians being trained in Indiana.
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Indiana University's excellence in discovering, developing and delivering life sciences research and innovations will be on display June 17-20, in San Diego, Calif., during BIO 2008, the leading international conference for the biotechnology industry in the United States. More than 20,000 attendees from biotechnology companies, academic institutions and related organizations will participate in BIO.
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