Legislators' Appropriations To Indiana University Will Advance Life Sciences Throughout Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University's strength in life sciences has been
boosted by the Indiana General Assembly, which last week approved bonding
authority for four research and education buildings--three in the School
of Medicine on the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne campuses and one in the
College of Arts and Sciences at IU-Bloomington.
The IU School of Medicine can now advance its plans for the following buildings:
- Medical Information Sciences (Indianapolis) - $15 million
- IUSM Research III (Indianapolis) - $33 million
- Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education - $14 million
The Medical Information Sciences building will house the Regenstrief
Institute, the Bowen Center, the Department of Public Health, the Center
for Bioethics, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,
biostatistics, and pediatric health services research. It will be built on
land given to IU by the City of Indianapolis.
Research III will expand the school's laboratory capacity for research in cancer, genomics and proteomics. The Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education will build a new facility to house research and its academic programs. In addition, a new medical education facility in Terre Haute will receive $65,000 annually for operations, beginning in fiscal year 2005.
IU will begin plans for the COAS Multidisciplinary Science Building II
in Bloomington with the General Assembly's approval of bonding authority
for $31.87 million. The design for MSB I, an 80,000-square-foot building,
has been approved and construction is expected to begin early in 2004.
No timetable for construction of MSB II has been established. Research
in proteomics, genomics, materials science, biophysics and related disciplines
will be housed in the two buildings.
In addition, the General Assembly provided bonding authority for the
state to construct facilities for the Indiana State Police, which would
include laboratories for the Indiana departments of health and toxicology.
This will benefit the IU School of Medicine by opening up approximately
40,000 square feet of space in the VanNuys Medical Science Building currently
used by the two state departments.
IU also will benefit from the legislature's enactment of a bill that
recognizes that research facilities are more costly to operate than education
buildings and will fund operations of future buildings based on the new
two-tiered rate.
"All of the projects will foster research programs that will allow faculty members to better compete for both public and private funding. In turn, this funding represents new revenues to the State and creates new jobs," said D. Craig Brater, MD, dean of the IU School of Medicine.
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