Progress is Built on Teamwork

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Progress is Built on Teamwork

• Barbara Atkinson, MD
• Richard Lariviere, PhD

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Great Teams in History
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Laurel and Hardy
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Orville and Wilbur
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Fred and Ginger
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Watson and Crick
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Big Jay and Baby Jay
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Lariviere and Atkinson
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One University

• KU has unlimited potential to serve the
  economic and humanitarian needs of our community,
  state and regionand that potential is greatest
  when the assets of our university-acting as one
  university- are devoted to a focused priority.

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One KU

• All of the Universitys campuses are contributing
  to the development of a world class cancer center
  at KU.
• Progress has been swift because of the many
  strengths KU faculty and researchers bring to
  that goal.

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Whats Next?
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The Next Opportunity

• A five-year plan to establish the
• Kansas Institute for Brain Health

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Mission

• To advance the field of neuroscience at the
  University of Kansas and establish KU as a global
  leader in the translation of neuroscience
  research to clinical applications of high need.

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Leveraging our Strengths

• The Brain Health Initiative allows us to
  leverage the considerable strengths of Lawrence
  based faculty and research capacity with the
  considerable strengths of the Hogland Brain
  Imaging Center and the neuroscience research
  focus of the KU Medical Center.

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Existing Strengths in Brain Health

• 44 faculty at KU Lawrence, KU Medical Center and
  Stowers work in the neuroscience graduate
  training program.
• Research funding for neuroscience program faculty
  totaled more than 90 million between 1998 and
  2003.
• A dozen shared core facilities in neurosciences
  already exist.
• Higuchi Biosciences Center, Schiefelbusch
  Institute for Life Span Studies, and the Landon
  Center on Aging are all existing
  multi-investigator centers at KU.

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Our Goals

• Strengthen existing KU centers focused on
  basic and clinical neuroscience research.

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Our Goals

• Develop a strategic hiring plan designed to
  create synergies with present areas of research
  strength.

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Our Goals

• Maximize research opportunities for all
  students to enhance their educational experience
  and prepare them for the workforce.

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Our Goals

• Evaluate the need for additional enabling
  technologies.
• Enabling technologies are the instruments
  through which the neuroscientists are allowed to
  measure and control biophysical and biochemical
  processes that otherwise would be inaccessible.

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Our Goals

• Expand opportunities to commercialize research
  products and discoveries aimed at enhancing brain
  health.

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• The KU Brain Health Initiative Allows KU to Do
  What it Does Best
• Calling on the strengths of all of its
  campuses, establish itself as a leader in the
  discovery, dissemination and application of
  knowledge to enhance human health and serve the
  interests of Kansans.

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We are glad you are on our team!