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• The Indiana University Health Information and Translational Sciences (HITS) Building was dedicated in March 2007.  Situated on the downtown canal on land provided by the city through a property exchange, the $42 million, 166,000 square foot facility houses multidisciplinary researchers devoted to improving the health and standard of living in Indiana through groundbreaking research.  Occupants include nine divisions of the School of Medicine, the IU Center for Bioethics, a collaboration among the medical school and the Schools of Liberal Arts and Law, and two of the new Signature Centers:  the IUPUI Center for Mathematical Biosciences, a collaboration between the medical school and the School of Science, and the Center for Excellence in Biocomputing, a collaboration among the Schools of Medicine, Science, and Informatics.  The facility will lend a strong impetus to the Indiana Life Sciences Initiative and help to make IUPUI a national model for translational research.
• Over $100 million of new grant funds will support leading edge research and patient care initiatives at the School of Medicine and IU Hospitals and Clinics.  A $50 million gift from Melvin and Bren Simon funds the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, dedicated to cancer research and care.  Eugene and Marilyn Glick  provided $30 million for the new Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute.  The funding will support a new building to house research, education, and care.  A $7.3 milllion grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center represents the fourth renewal of the original grant funds for this comprehensive program of interdisciplinary research on Alzheimer’s and other dementias.  A new world-class pediatric diabetes treatment and care program at Riley Hospital for Children is funded with $10 million from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation.  About 7.4 percent of Hoosiers—338,000 people—have been diagnosed with diabetes; another 82,000 may be undiagnosed.

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