Purdue's growing drug development focus to strengthen Indiana CTSI
March 13, 2013
When the National Institutes of Health created the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, which houses the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award program that supports the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, NIH Director Francis Collins pinpointed accelerating the development of diagnostics and therapeutics as an important goal of the new center.
Meanwhile, Purdue University, an institutional member of the Indiana CTSI along with Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame, is emerging as a leader in the field of drug discovery with construction underway on a new $25-million Drug Discovery Building, opening in 2014, and a new virtual center aimed at discovering new treatments for conditions such as cancer and inflammatory disease.
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Innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays
May 23, 2013
Researchers have created a new type of transparent electrode that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics and future "optoelectronic" circuits for sensors and information processing. The electrode i
Read Full StoryAngelina Jolie's double mastectomy highlights need for advances in cancer prevention
May 22, 2013
Angelina Jolie's announcement that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer highlights the need for more cancer prevention options, according to a Purdue University breast-cancer expert.
Read Full StoryAbel Chuang selected as Discovery Park Fellow for research in proton exchange membrane fuel cells
May 21, 2013
Discovery Park Fellow: Dr. Abel Chuang, College of Technology Project Title: "Study of Material, Cell, and System Integration of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells" Affiliated Center(s): Birck Nanotechnology Center, Energy Center
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