Video: Life Sciences in action
Creating new jobs and medical advances for Hoosiers
Barbara Lewis: Good evening and welcome to IU Update. I'm Barbara Lewis. Indiana University has planted the seeds and we're comitted to growing a life science industry right here in Indiana…
Work that starts out in IU laboratories can be spun off to create new jobs and at the same time…produce medical advances that contribute to healthy Hoosiers.
Prof. Linda Malkas: I believe we can detect cancer in a blood test in the laboratory right now. That long time Star Trek future that we think is so far away regarding cancer, I think, is not that far away. I think we are going to have a real blood test, probably in physician’s offices, probably in the next five years.
Dr. Lawrence Einhorn: Research doesn’t happen in a garage. And Indiana University is a wonderful facility to foster research. I seriously doubt that the type of work that I was able to accomplish, and continue to accomplish, could’ve been done at any medical center anywhere else other than Indiana University.
IU leads an impressive group interested in seeing Indiana's life sciences industry flourish. That group includes state government…business leaders…and yes…even our friends from West Lafayette.
IU has the technology and the medical research infrastructure needed to bring opportunity and better medicine to all of us. I'm Barbara Lewis reporting for IU Update.
