The IU Medical Center campus

The Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine are located on the 85 acre IU Medical Center campus, one mile from the center of Indianapolis. The medical campus, which houses the nation's second largest medical school, is constantly growing. Three new basic and clinical research buildings have opened in the past three years, with others scheduled to open in 2003 and 2005.

The campus is part of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) which also houses the IU Schools of Informatics, Law, Business, Dentistry, and Nursing as well as IU and Purdue undergraduate schools. World class athletic facilities, which are open to medical informatics fellows, have hosted the Pan-American Games, the Olympic swimming and diving trials, RCA Tennis championships, and NCAA championships in swimming and track.

The Indianapolis International Airport is 15 minutes from IUPUI.

Research

The IU School of Medicine is home to an NCI-designated Clinical Cancer Center, the National Gene Vector Laboratory (the nation's only NIH-funded viral vector production facilities for clinical grade therapeutics), and a Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematopoiesis.

A $105 million grant from the Lilly Endowment in December 2000 established the Indiana Genomics Initiative which has positioned the IU School of Medicine as a leader in genomics and proteomics.

The fundamental research goal of INGEN is to establish the relationships between human genotypes and the physical and biologic characteristics of tissues and organ systems -- relationships that can lead to genetically complex diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and cancer. Such research generates mammoth amounts of laboratory and medical data, requiring powerful new computing, storage and analysis resources.

Six major programs in genomics, bioinformatics, medical informatics, bioethics, education and training comprise the heart of the Indiana Genomics Initiative. The six programs are supported by nine "cores", which are specialized areas of faculty expertise and research tools such as high speed computers, high speed robotic DNA sequencing machines and advanced medical imaging systems. The success of the Indiana Genomics Initiative will be built on the collaboration of each of these programs and cores.

Indiana University

IU is the home of a sophisticated and powerful environment for research computing, including a tera FLOPS IBM RS/6000 SP, a 64-processor Sun E10,000, and a large Linux cluster. IU's Advanced Visualization Laboratory manages and supports 3-D visualization, and provides a CAVE and Immersadesk virtual reality system

IU also has outstanding network connectivity, as the university houses and manages the GlobalNOC, the network operations center for the Abilene and TransPAC networks. Additional information about IU's research computing environment is available at www.indiana.edu/~uits/rac.

IU is the home of FlyBase, the drosophila genome database produced by a consortium of researchers funded by NIH and the Medical Research Council, London.