2007-2008 marked the completion of the new IU Simon Cancer Center building, a collaboration between the School of Medicine and Clarian Health. The building, which opened in Summer 2008, represents the first phase of a $150 million, 405,000 square foot facility that will house both patient care and research activity and expand the infrastructure for both. Also slated for opening in 2009 is the School of Medicine’s $83 million Research III facility, which will complete a three-building, 500,000 square foot complex dedicated to solving the puzzles of cancer and developing new treatments.
Ten new Signature Centers, all interdisciplinary and all related to health and life sciences, were awarded three years of seed funding. Among the new centers are: the Android Science Center, the first of its kind in the U.S., which will build more functional, realistic androids and study human-android interaction to identify areas where androids might improve quality of life; the Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine, where scientists will collaborate on research that translates advances in disease biology into tools for diagnosis and treatment of patients; and the Transportation Active Safety Institute, which will develop systems that both prevent crashes and save lives when accidents occur.
University Information Technology Services provides IUPUI with a robust cyberinfrastructure to support research, scholarship, and creative activity. That infrastructure was strengthened in 2007-2008 by the expansion of the supercomputer Big Red to support research that encourages Indiana’s economic growth. The 2-TFLOPS AVIDD cluster was replaced with the Quarry 7-TFLOPS supercomputer, providing IUPUI researchers with faster Intel hardware. UITS’ new data capacitor represents a major contribution to data-intensive computing, and with the upgraded Massive Data Storage System, provides a competitive advantage to IUPUI grant seekers.
