August 10, 2009

Purdue community invited to participate in Indiana CTSI retreat

Purdue faculty members, researchers, students and others are invited to participate this fall in the 2nd Annual Retreat of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, a research collaboration between Purdue and Indiana University.

The Sept. 24 event will focus on research areas of personalized medicine and nutrition, new-technology development, imaging technology, modeling and simulations, infectious diseases, and the use of animal models.

The retreat runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. To register, go online to www.indianactsi.org/workshops/ictsiretreat09/apply. The deadline to register is Aug. 31.

Leading the retreat are Anantha Shekhar, director of the Indiana CTSI and the Raymond E. Houk Professor in Psychiatry at IU; and Connie Weaver, distinguished professor and head of the Purdue Department of Foods and Nutrition and lead researcher at Purdue on the CTSI project.

Participating from Purdue are Marietta Harrison, director of the Oncological Sciences Center; Richard Kuhn, director of the Bindley Bioscience Center; Graham Cooks, the Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor or Analytical Chemistry; Suresh Mittal, professor of comparative pathobiology; Harm HogenEsch, associate dean for research of the School of Veterinary Medicine and professor of immunopathology; biology professor Steve Konieczny; and biomedical engineering professors Tom Talavage and Ann Rundell.

Gary Hutchins, the John W. Beeler Professor of Radiology at the IU School of Medicine, and Ann Elsner, professor of optometry at the IU School of Optometry, also will speak at the event.

For more information, contact Sydney Kisseberth, project manager for the Indiana CTSI at the Bindley Bioscience Center, at 49-41678 or skissebe@purdue.edu.

The National Institutes of Health awarded Purdue and IU with $25 million over five years in 2008 to launch the Indiana CTSI, which is the only national clinical and translational sciences institute that's also a statewide research laboratory.

Indiana CTSI does that by combining Purdue's statewide Extension offices and IU's regional medical school campuses across Indiana.