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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. |
