Indiana University Life Science Strategic Plan

Abstract

The Indiana University Life Sciences Strategic Plan will channel the University’s core strengths in the life sciences toward a common purpose, and challenges the University to forge new areas of excellence. The combined strengths of the life sciences enterprises at IU’s two major campuses, in Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Bloomington (IUB), together with important contributions from IU’s regional campuses, create possibilities and opportunities at Indiana University that allow us to compete effectively with the best research universities in the country. Indiana University’s excellence in information technology serves as a foundation for life sciences research and as an enabler of collaboration among Indiana University’s scientists. Together, these many assets will enable IU scientists to understand genetic information and how that genetic information is processed and expressed to make us what we are. Such understanding will create new opportunities for genomic researchers and cancer clinicians, behavioral scientists and neurobiologists, analytical chemists, and model systems biologists. IU scientists, working together in new ways, will create new opportunities to apprehend solutions to medical problems that were formerly beyond our grasp.