Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Molecular Imaging Center

描述：(申请人提供) 威斯康星大学是独一无二的，因为这两个由联邦政府资助的癌症 中心、华盛顿大学综合癌症中心和麦卡德尔实验室 癌症研究中心都设在校园里。这两个中心现在都在 合并过程，以形成一个单一的综合性癌症中心 巨大的癌症生物学和临床智力和技术资源。 在这次合并的同时，该大学最近公布了其 HealthStar-2000倡议，其中一个方面包括建立一个新的350,000 FT2双塔医学研究设施将被称为跨学科 研究综合体(IRC)。IRC的战略位置将毗邻 现有的威斯康星大学医院和综合肿瘤中心综合体和等距 来自韦斯曼中心和新药学院大楼(竣工 2000年)。IRC将容纳癌症、心脏和血管、分子医学， 神经科学、移植、老龄化和妇女健康计划。IRC是 旨在促进和培育跨学科研究。强烈强调 将以分子为主题进行研究。的确，分子生物学 在翻译研究中的应用将成为 IRC。此外，新的IRC将容纳一个50,000平方英尺的图像科学中心 在那里，医学物理学家、放射科医生、肿瘤学家和 心脏病专家将开发非侵入性诊断技术。因此， 这个P20前分子成像II中心规划的长期目标 格兰特，绰号威斯康星州跨学科分子成像中心 (WIMIC)，将为随后的P50跨学科奠定基础 分子成像中心拨款，以融合广大的癌症研究和 威斯康星大学成像科学界成为领先的跨学科分子 影像中心。本申请的具体目标是：1) 组织一个机构，鼓励和促进基础癌症的互动 生物研究人员与成像科学家一起努力回答独特的 与癌症相关的问题。2)为科学家提供访问有针对性的新技术的途径 细胞选择性显像剂及其在新生物中的评价 系统。3)利用共享的机构资金为 跨学科的博士后和研究生支持。4)发起 双月一次的研讨会系列，由精英分子成像科学家和 最先进的成像技术，向所有科学家开放 纪律。5)为妇女、少数群体和青年提供机会 调查人员通过与WIMIC成员和小额种子赠款的互动。

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) The University of Wisconsin is unique in that two federally funded Cancer Centers, The UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research are both located on campus. These two centers are now in the process of merging to form a single comprehensive cancer center with tremendous cancer biology and clinical intellectual and technical resources. In conjunction with this merger, the University recently unveiled its HealthStar-2000 initiative, one facet of which includes building a new 350,000 ft2 twin-tower medical research facility to be know as the Interdisciplinary Research Complex (IRC). The IRC will be strategically located adjacent to the current UW Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center complex and equidistant from both the Waisman Center and new School of Pharmacy building (completion in 2000). The IRC will house cancer, heart and vascular, molecular medicine, neuroscience, transplantation, aging, and womens health programs. The IRC is intended to catalyze and nurture interdisciplinary research. A strong emphasis will be placed on research with a molecular theme. Indeed, molecular biology applied in translational research will serve as the intellectual theme of the IRC. Moreover, the new IRC will house a 50,000 ft2 Image Science Center where collaborating medical physicists, radiologists, oncologists, and cardiologists will develop noninvasive diagnostic technologies. Therefore, the long term objective of this P20 pre-molecular imaging Ii center planning grant, nicknamed the Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Molecular Imaging Center (WIMIC), is to form the foundation of a I subsequent P50 interdisciplinary molecular imaging center grant in order to meld the vast cancer research and imaging sciences community at UW into a leading interdisciplinary molecular imaging center. The specific objectives of this application are to: 1) Organize a structure to encourage and foster the interaction of basic cancer biology researchers with imaging scientists in an effort to answer unique cancer-related questions. 2) To provide scientists access to novel targeted cell-selective imaging agents and to evaluate these agents in new biological systems. 3) To utilize shared institutional funds to provide funding for interdisciplinary post doctoral and graduate student support. 4) Initiate a bimonthly seminar series featuring elite molecular imaging scientists and state of the art imaging technologies and open to scientists of all disciplines. 5) Provide opportunities for women, minority, and young investigators through interaction with WIMIC members and small seed grants.