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News Releases, Office of Public & Media Relations News Releases, Office of Public & Media Relations NEWS $105 Million Grant From Lilly Endowment Fuels Genomics Initiative at RELEASES Indiana University 2000 Return to Indiana Genomics Initiative Web site. Article listing INDIANAPOLIS -- A $105 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. has positioned December Indiana University to take a commanding role in the promising field of genomics 14, 2000 research. This is the largest single grant ever received by the University and the INDIANA $105 Million largest single gift ever awarded by the Lilly Endowment. UNIVERSITY Grant From SCHOOL OF Lilly The Indiana Genomics Initiative will create a world-class biomedical enterprise, MEDICINE Endowment building on existing resources at the IU School of Medicine. The school currently Fuels holds $130 million in research funding, which includes funding for the only federally MEDIA sponsored gene vector production and research facility, for one of three molecular Genomics RELATIONS Initiative at hematology research centers in the country and a National Cancer Institute- designated Cancer Research Center. Indiana A STATEWIDE University The initiative referred to as INGEN will advance educational opportunities for doctoral RESOURCE and master's degree scientists and computer specialists at both the Indiana University- December 5, Purdue University Indianapolis and Bloomington campuses. Phone 2000 317 274 7722 Avoid Wheels N. Clay Robbins, president of the Endowment, said, "Lilly Endowment was of Misfortune immediately attracted to this initiative because it builds strategically on Indiana Fax With University's recognized strengths in informatics and supercomputing, supported in 317 278 8722 Protective part by the Endowment-funded Indiana Pervasive Computing Research Initiative. The Gear potential for the results of this grant to attract a stellar array of intellectual talent and expertise to Indiana-along with attendant employment opportunities-is especially exciting." November 28, 2000 NEWS "The Endowment," he noted, "also is greatly impressed by the commitment of IU as a FLASH: Men part of this initiative to develop a major center for the study of bioethics, especially relating to genomics research." Do Hear -- But Differently IU President Myles Brand said, "IU is very happy to partner with the Lilly Endowment Than Women, to create the Indiana Genomics Initiative. Through its approval of this funding, the Brain Images Endowment clearly states its belief that IU is up to this challenge. Of course, I heartily Show agree. INGEN will capitalize on the excellence of the School of Medicine, and it will build on preeminent research programs underway in biology and chemistry on the November Bloomington campus. It also will rely on IU's leadership in information technology and 20, 2000 the emerging field of informatics." Human trial for spinal "The project will illustrate on a grand scale the truth that IU's excellence is a public injury resource," said Brand. "That means we not only have an obligation to educate the treatment state's citizens but to improve their quality of life and help create a 21st-century launched by Hoosier economy. INGEN will enable us to do that in new and exciting ways." IU, Purdue In addition to education and bioethics, the other key components of the Initiative are genomics, bioinformatics, medical informatics and training for working scientists. November 17, 2000 Common Since the Human Genome Project, initiated by the United States in 1989, recently announced it had completed the "working draft" of the human genome, scientists at Cause Of institutions throughout the world have stepped up their research to make sense of the Legal estimated 3 billion bits of information that make up the human genome, the genetic Blindness material that contains DNA -- the building blocks of life. Could Diminish If "Determining the meanings contained in these 3 billion bits of information is like Treatment setting out to understand a foreign language given only a jumbled list of words without http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_00/nra00.html (1 of 16)6/19/2006 9:28:45 AM News Releases, Office of Public & Media Relations Proves their meanings," said D. Craig Brater, M.D., dean of the IU School of Medicine and a Successful chief architect of the proposal made to Lilly Endowment. Identification "Physicians and researchers involved in the Indiana Genomics Initiative will Of New Gene collaborate to discover the meanings of those words," Brater said. "They are the keys for better patient care. We strongly believe that this will bring us to the day we will be May Lead To able to treat a cancer patient with a therapy that destroys only cancer cells, leaving Treatments healthy tissue unharmed or, give a remedy to halt a patient's Alzheimer disease at the For Some same time we give a diagnosis. Phosphate- Wasting "All of our expectations of future health care depend on a whole new way of treating Diseases, disease and on physicians and scientists who will develop those treatments. This Renal means working from a genomic-based knowledge base. Since more than half of the Insufficiency physicians treating citizens in Indiana are educated at the IU School of Medicine, it is vital for us to provide them with the best education and training in the country," Brater added. November 15, 2000 Breast Within three years, IU will hire approximately 75 additional M.D., Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D. and master's degree-level scientists and will be positioned to attract exceptional Cancer Grant scholars interested in genomics. The initiative will have a similar impact on student Will Help recruitment in information technology and other fields associated with the initiative at Reach IU. Central Indiana "The Endowment believes that this comprehensive plan - with talented and committed Latinas people carrying it out - has the potential to position Indiana University and its Schools of Medicine and Informatics into the highest rank of research enterprises," said Sara November B. Cobb, the Endowment's vice president for education. 14, 2000 Mini Medical "Because of IU's nationally recognized expertise in supercomputing and informatics, School this grant holds promise to develop a critical mass of intellectual capital in our state's Session 6 HIV/ life sciences industry cluster, one of the highest priorities identified in an ongoing AIDS Rate study of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership conducted by the Battelle Memorial Institute," she said. "We are also impressed with the university's Escalates opportunities for synergies between Indiana University's information technology Among expertise and the Regenstrief Medical Record System." Women, African- The Indiana Genomics Initiative will build on IU's investments in research and Americans academic computing resources-including an expansion of its supercomputer system- and the university's links to the Internet2 and other high speed computing networks. November 10, 2000 "Information technology is essential to scientific progress in genomic research," said "Mid-Nighter" Michael A. McRobbie, Ph.D., IU vice president for information technology and chief Event information officer, who will be responsible for the further development of the Supports information technology infrastructure for the initiative. Asthma Research "The genomics initiative will take advantage of IU's world-class information technology infrastructure including supercomputers, facilities for storing massive amounts of computer data, as well as 3-D visualization laboratories," McRobbie said. "It will also November 9, have very close connections to IU's new School of Informatics for education and 2000 training in this area, and to other IU centers of research in the use of information Program To technology to solve complex problems." Steer Marion Co. Toward IU anticipates collaborations with other universities and private industry. The IU Safety Advanced Research and Technology Institute, known as ARTI, will support economic development and promote commercialization of scientific discoveries through a November 2, technology transfer assistance program. It will include access to seed and venture 2000 capital, workforce enhancement, creation of biomedical companies, and licensing to New Institute commercial partners. http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_00/nra00.html (2 of 16)6/19/2006 9:28:45 AM News Releases, Office of Public & Media Relations Promises Stellar For more information about the Indiana Genomics Initiative, see its Web site at http:// Medical www.ingen.iu.edu Research, Innovation November 1, Media Contacts: Mary Hardin or Pamela Perry 2000 School of Medicine Mini Medical 317-274-7722 [email protected] School [email protected] Session 5 Panic Buttons And Monkeys Karen Adams, Office of Vice President for InformationTechnology On Your Back 812-856-5596 [email protected] October 26, 2000 Mini Medical School Session 4 News Release Archives | Media Relations | IU School of Medicine Breast Cancer: Boosting The Odds For Survival October 25, 2000 Health Forum Salutes Researchers, Wells Center October 19, 2000 Mini Medical School- Session 3 Women's Cardiovascular Disease October 13, 2000 HIV-Aids Update Tackles Therapy Mini Medical School- Session 2 Osteoporosis Risk http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_00/nra00.html (3 of 16)6/19/2006 9:28:45 AM News Releases, Office of Public & Media Relations Escalates At Menopause October 6, 2000 Mini Medical School- Session 1 Domestic Violence: An Equal Opportunity Risk October
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