LIFE SCIENCES: SOLVING CUTTING-EDGE, REAL-WORLD AND SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES
“As a life science company, we strive to live up to our vision ‘Health for all, Hunger for none.’ We are excited to become members of the Purdue University campus.”
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Life Science Facilities and Programs
BINDLEY BIOSCIENCE CENTER
The Bindley Bioscience Center provides a unique infrastructure to support interdisciplinary research. Laboratory space and high-end scientific equipment is shared and available to support diverse projects, ranging from complex diseases to technology development to new catalysts for biofuels production. An expert staff provides research consultation and technical support to enable technology implementation, feasibility studies, and the generation of pilot data to support new project ideas.
HALL FOR DISCOVERY AND LEARNING RESEARCH
More than 56,000 assignable square feet, including 38,400 square feet for labs, offices, conferences and meetings. This building is home to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), Joint Transportation Research Program, Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR), Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience and the Purdue Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease. It also houses an instrumentation lab, which is administered by Purdue’s Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development (CAID). The lab develops technologies for use in research in drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and combating chemical and biological terrorism.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR DRUG DISCOVERY
The three-story Drug Discovery Facility is designed to promote the discovery, design and development of new drugs through an innovative architecture that encourages collaborations in chemistry, medicinal chemistry and biology. The facility houses the Purdue Institute for Drug Discovery, and accommodates more than 100 multidisciplinary researchers with nine faculty offices. Meeting rooms and common areas on each floor facilitate interaction and collaboration. The building provides facilities for organic synthesis, including over 80 fume hoods, as well as cell culture, analytical chemistry, molecule purification, biochemistry and molecular biology, and fluorescent imaging.
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Recent Life Sciences Research
WEARABLE PATCH MAY PROVIDE NEW TREATMENT OPTION FOR SKIN CANCER
Conventional melanoma therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, suffer from the toxicity and side effects of repeated treatments due to the aggressive and recurrent nature of melanoma cells. Less invasive topical chemotherapies have emerged as alternatives, but their widespread uses have been hindered by both the painful size of the microneedles and the rapidly dissolving behavior of polymers used in the treatments.
TECHNOLOGY USES PLANT BIOMASS WASTE FOR SELF-POWERED BIOMEDICAL DEVICES
An innovation turning waste material into stretchable devices may soon provide a new option for creating self-powered biomedical inventions. A team from Purdue University used lignin to create triboelectric nanogenerators. TENGs help conserve mechanical energy and turn it into power. Lignin is a waste byproduct from the pulp and paper industries, and it is one of the most abundant biopolymers on Earth.
