Wisconsin Interdisciplinary Molecular Imaging Center

描述：（申请人提供） 威斯康星州的大学是独一无二的，因为两个联邦资助的癌症 中心，华盛顿大学综合癌症中心和麦卡德尔实验室， 癌症研究都位于校园内。这两个中心现在在 合并形成一个单一的综合癌症中心的过程， 巨大的癌症生物学和临床知识和技术资源。 在这次合并的同时，大学最近公布了其 健康之星-2000倡议，其中一个方面包括建立一个新的35万 2英尺的双塔医学研究设施被称为跨学科 研究综合体（IRC）。体育馆将位于毗邻 目前华盛顿大学医院和综合癌症中心综合体和等距 从魏斯曼中心和新的药学院大楼（完成 2000年）。IRC将容纳癌症，心脏和血管，分子医学， 神经科学、移植、老龄化和妇女健康项目。IRC是 旨在促进和培育跨学科研究。大力强调 将被用于分子主题的研究事实上，分子生物学 在翻译研究中的应用将成为本书的知识主题。 IRC。此外，新的IRC将容纳50，000平方英尺的图像科学中心 在那里，合作的医学物理学家，放射科医生，肿瘤学家， 心脏病专家将开发无创诊断技术。因此 该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），是形成I后续P50跨学科的基础 分子成像中心赠款，以融合庞大的癌症研究， 在UW成像科学社区成为一个领先的跨学科分子 影像中心本申请的具体目的是：1） 组织一个结构，以鼓励和促进基本癌症的相互作用 生物学研究人员与成像科学家一起， 癌症相关的问题。2)为科学家提供新的目标， 细胞选择性成像剂，并评估这些药物在新的生物 系统. 3)利用共享的机构资金为下列活动提供资金： 跨学科博士后和研究生支持。4)发起 每两个月举行一次的研讨会系列，邀请精英分子成像科学家和 最先进的成像技术，并向所有科学家开放 学科5)为妇女、少数民族和年轻人提供机会 研究人员通过与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.