DISCOVERY
BMS has a highly interdisciplinary and diverse
faculty, all of whom have Ph.D. degrees; many also have a D.V.M.
or M.D. degree. Its faculty and graduate students participate in
interdisciplinary graduate programs and team-taught courses in the
larger university, (e.g., in the Purdue University NCI sponsored
Cancer Center, Biomedical Engineering, PULSe, Purdue Neurosciences,
Food Science, and Animal Sciences). Faculty expertise ranges from
molecular biology, signal transduction, and cellular physiology
through systems physiology and pharmacology. The faculty apply this
expertise to research in such problem areas as cancer, neuroscience,
biomedical engineering, and biomedical education, the four areas
that have been selected for emphasis by the department.
In general, research facilities and equipment
are excellent and include state-of-the-art cell culture, electron
and confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, microspectrofluorometry,
image analysis, patch-clamp station, and HPLC systems, as well as
a highly integrated computer network. BMS faculty and staff occupy
24,154 square feet of research laboratory space in four buildings.
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