Fall 03

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Message from the Dean
D. Craig Brater, MD

Featured Articles:

• Imagine Tomorrow’s Medicine

Imagine a time when life-altering diseases and crippling injuries are prevented or cured. Lofty visions help raise the roof of IUSM’s new Research II building.

• Cellular Sleuthing

Investigators at the Walther Oncology Center hail from many disciplines and specialties, but they share a common goal – to link research from bench to bedside.

• Neuro-Minded Navigators

The nervy folk at the School’s newest research center – the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute – rely on collaboration and creative science to tackle disorders.

• Research in Real Time

Take a detour down the cellular superhighways of life. The Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy uses the latest research to better understand disease states.

• Design Intervention

The Interventional Radiology Research Laboratory develops safer and less invasive techniques for cardiovascular disease and other disorders.

• Vision Quest

Now you don’t see it … now you do! Researchers at the Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging are developing imaging technologies and agents to study, diagnose and improve patient health.

• Medicine in the Heartland

Happy birthday to us! IUSM prepares for a year-long observance of its 100th anniversary. This section kicks off a four-part series about the School’s history.

News & Notes
• Drug Agent Arrests Alzheimer Disease
• Taking It to the Top
• Johns Hopkins Physician Selected Surgery Chief

Alumni News

Viewpoint

In Memoriam

Calendar

About the cover:
Surgery has come a long way over the last century at the IU School of Medicine, as evidenced by these contrasting images provided by University Library Special Collections and Archives and the Office of Visual Media..