July 19, 2005

New Purdue center will expand cancer research across disciplines

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University announced Tuesday (July 19) the formation of the Oncological Sciences Center, an interdisciplinary research facility that will increase the university's contribution to the battle against cancer.

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"Purdue is proud to be stepping up cancer research at a time when the National Institutes of Health are recommitting themselves to the fight against this disease," said Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. "The NIH has called for a nationwide effort to end suffering caused by cancer by 2015, and Purdue is answering that call thanks to a generous gift from the Lilly Endowment. This new center will bring more of our resources to the task and will do so in highly creative ways inspired by our brightest researchers."

The Oncological Sciences Center is one of four new centers in Purdue's Discovery Park, some of which have yet to be announced. Together, the four centers will receive a combined $10 million over the next three years from Lilly Endowment to establish themselves as interdisciplinary research facilities.

"The creation of the Oncological Sciences Center offers a wonderful opportunity to bring together life scientists, engineers and experts in communication and human behavior to assault the cancer problem," said Marietta Harrison, interim director of the center and a professor of medicinal chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences. "The center will dedicate itself to finding solutions to the problems we now face in prevention, treatment and the key issue of early detection. We will now have the means to exploit Purdue’s considerable strength in engineering to achieve our collective national goal of eliminating cancer as a cause of suffering and death by the year 2015."

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The center will integrate broad areas of the research communities in the life sciences, liberal arts, engineering and chemical sciences to focus on wider aspects of the cancer problem. The existing

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