Sonia Alemagno, Interim VP for Research November 19, 2010 Key - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Biomedicine and Health Care Centers of Excellence Sonia Alemagno, Interim VP for Research November 19, 2010

Key Expertise Bioscience Public Health • Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment /HIV-STD • Biophysics – David Allender, Elizabeth Mann Prevention – Sonia Alemagno • Infectious Disease Epidemiology /Women’s & • Liquid Crystal Institute/Chemical Physics – Global Health/Epidemiologic Methods - Madhav P. Chanjoong Kim, Qu-huo Wei Bhatta • Biostatistical Methodologies/ Predictive Modeling – • Computer Science – Gwenn Volkert, Arvind Vinay K. Cheruvu Bansal • Health Policy & Reform/Medicaid & the Uninsured – Robert G. Frank • Biomedical image restoration and enhancement – • Causal Inference in Public Health Research /Drug Abuse Prevention & Treatment – Scott F. Grey Lothar Reichel • Mental Health – David L. Hussey • Chemistry – C.C. Tsai , Nichola Brasch , Hanbin • Dissemination & Translation Research /Adolescent Mao, Soumitra Basu , Diane Stroup, Roger Health Policy – Willie H. Oglesby Gregory, John Portman, Bransidhar Datta, Arne • Prevention of Child Obesity – R. Scott Olds Gericke • Familial Cancer Clusters/Breast & Colon Cancers/ • Biological Sciences – Douglas Kline; Brent Genetic Epidemiology – Lynette Phillips Bruot; Christopher Woolverton, Gary Niehaus, • Indoor-Outdoor Air Quality/Community Health Oleg Lavrentovich, Srinivasan Vijayaraghavan, Program Evanulation – Tomas Tamulis John Stalvey, Robert Dorman, Jennifer • Biosafety/Immunology/BSL Training – Christopher Marcinkiewicz, James Blank, Rob Clements, Gail J. Woolverton Fraizer, Eric Mintz • Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Rehabilitation/Obesity-Diabetes Prevention & Management – Melissa Zullo

Key Resources and Assets • College of Public Health • College of Nursing • Departments of Psychology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and others Centers and Facilities • Initiative for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) Doug Delahanty – Summa Health System • Biosafety Training Facility (a designated training facility of the NIH-NBBTP) – Christopher Woolverton • Center for Nursing Research and Simulation Laboratory • Centennial Research Park (home of new company Pathogen Systems, Inc.) • Analytical Instrumentation Facility, Department of Chemistry • Flight Simulator – Ellen Glickman EHHS • Laser Capture Microscope - Biological Science • Imaging Core Facility • Genomics Core Facility • Proteomic Core Facility • Computational Core Facility • Cell Biology Teaching & Research Lab • 3-D Classroom • Liquid Crystal Institute

Key Technology Pharmaceutical compounds • Synthetic Vitamin B12 Derivatives for Anti-Dementia Applications • Monodisperse Encapsulating Microbiogels • Sperm-Specific AKAP Protein Genes and Uses • Subversion of Bacterial Resistance by Low Solubility Antibiotic for Wound Healing • Vitamin K3 Compounds for Treatment of Cancer Medical Devices • Rapid Sensitive Bio-detection • Fluorogenic Compounds Converted to Fluorophores for Medical Diagnostics • Thermoelecrtic Liquid Crystal Flow for Use in Home Medical Diagnostics • Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Viral Particles by Laser Tweezers Imaging • MRI Contrast Agents • 3D Viewing of Large Image Data Sets

Unique Processes • The region’s only NIH Designated Biosafety (BSL-3) Training Facility • Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation • Initiatives across colleges and institutions • Recently established College of Public Health to help meet demonstrated state and national need • The Initiative for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) in collaboration with Summa Health System facilitates NIH research in the areas of trauma, community health and chronic disease management • Interdisciplinary institutes • Extensive research in bioscience