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November 5, 2007
Purdue announces director for Discovery Park's Bindley Bioscience Center
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - |
Richard Kuhn, who also is the head of Purdue's Department of Biological Sciences, will become the first director of the Bindley Bioscience Center, said Alan H. Rebar, executive director of Discovery Park. His appointment was effective Nov. 1.
Kuhn, who succeeds interim co-directors Mark Hermodson and George Wodicka, said he will build Bindley's research focus around Purdue's strengths in cancer, infectious diseases, and functional and translational genomics. He said he will support future development of technologies in genomics, proteomics and advanced analytical chemistry.
He received his doctorate in molecular biology from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1986, joined the Purdue faculty in 1991 and became a Purdue Faculty Scholar in 2004. His research, based at the Markey Center for Structural Biology, focuses on understanding the biology of viruses that infect humans such as yellow fever, dengue virus, West Nile virus and hepatitis C.
Since opening in October 2005, the $15 million Bindley Bioscience Center has focused on developing miniaturized technologies for drug delivery, creating sensor implants for diagnosing, and harnessing genes and proteins from plants and animals to create new medicines and materials.
Writer: Phillip Fiorini, (765) 496-3133, pfiorini@purdue.edu
Sources: Alan H. Rebar, (765) 496-6625, rebar@purdue.edu
Richard Kuhn, (765) 494-4407, kuhnr@purdue.edu
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