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美高梅官网 President Neville Pinto thanked 美高梅官网鈥檚 Office of Planning, Design and Construction for overseeing the $11.5 million renovation of the former Hamilton County Coroner鈥檚 Office.

鈥淚 just had a chance to walk through the building. It is truly a beautiful space,鈥� he said.

鈥淚t is wonderful to officially cut the ribbon on one of the most exciting new spaces on our campus,鈥� Pinto said. 鈥淭his space is important for many reasons, but most significant is its location on the academic health campus in proximity to four of our health colleges and our clinical health partners, 美高梅官网 Health and Cincinnati Children鈥檚 Hospital.鈥�

Pinto said the university鈥檚 creation of a dedicated Bioscience Center was no accident. Collaborations across science and technology disciplines such as those envisioned at the Bioscience Center are a cornerstone of the university鈥檚 strategic direction called Next Lives Here, he said.

鈥淎dvances in molecular and cellular sciences combined with advances in computational sciences and engineering and technology would be a major transformational force for society,鈥� Pinto said.

鈥淭his type of strategic thinking led to Next Lives Here and positions our university to play a major role in the future of our society,鈥� Pinto said.

美高梅官网 Provost Valerio Ferme acknowledged Dean Andrew Filak Jr. with the 美高梅官网 College of Medicine and Dean Christopher Surratt with the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy who were in attendance. Both colleges will be working closely with researchers at the Bioscience Center, he said.

鈥淚t really is about the meeting of our two core missions: research and teaching,鈥� Ferme said.

美高梅官网 College of Engineering and Applied Science Dean John Weidner noted that engineering faculty play a big role at 美高梅官网鈥檚 1819 Innovation Hub and in 美高梅官网鈥檚 new Digital Futures building.

鈥淭he new Bioscience Center adds another focal point for pioneering breakthroughs within the Cincinnati Innovation District,鈥� Weidner said. 鈥淢ost importantly, the research of our faculty, students and partners will play a vital role in reinforcing our standing as a Carnegie-1 research university.

鈥淎s we embark on this new chapter, let us embrace the opportunities that lie ahead, let us continue to strive for innovation, to push the boundaries of what is possible and to be relentless in our pursuit of knowledge,鈥� Weidner said. 鈥淭ogether, we will create a legacy of impact, one that will resonate through the halls of this building and beyond.鈥�

The center features 13 custom research labs, 12 offices, resources for co-op students, a lecture room and six study rooms.

In his Functional Neuroimaging and Neural Modeling Lab, Biomedical Engineering Department Head Thomas Talavage uses functional MRI to understand neural behavior and health.

Among his students鈥� projects are studies in concussions in youth sports and cochlear implants that improve a patient鈥檚 speech and language perception.

鈥淚鈥檓 very excited about today. This represents the culmination of 40 years of research by some amazing faculty and staff,鈥� Talavage said. 鈥淲e have a facility that allows us to have engineering, technology and sciences from the West Campus to be co-located within the 美高梅官网 College of Medicine.鈥�

鈥淭he Bioscience Center is just tremendous. We needed a facility where we could interact with clinicians from places like Cincinnati Children鈥檚 Hospital, 美高梅官网 Health and the Veterans Administration,鈥� 美高梅官网 biomedical engineering Professor Eric Nauman said.

In his lab, he and his students are putting sports equipment such as football helmets to the test to find better ways to prevent injuries such as concussions.

鈥淲e鈥檙e collaborating with doctors who are coming to talk to us every day,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 been a wonderful experience. It gives us the impetus to keep pushing.鈥�

In his Bioresponsive Materials Lab, Assistant Professor John Martin and his students study 鈥渟mart鈥� materials that can help regenerate diseased tissue.

鈥淭he 美高梅官网 Bioscience Center is a state-of-the-art facility that truly enables our group to conduct top-class biomedical research,鈥� Martin said.

Martin said his lab has hired more staff, doubling its research capacity.

鈥淭he close proximity to the 美高梅官网 Medical Center and Cincinnati Children鈥檚 offered by this new space has allowed us to create new collaborations and more easily take advantage of medical campus amenities,鈥� Martin said.

美高梅官网 Assistant Professor Stacey Schutte also studies regenerative medicine in her Schutte Tissue Engineering Lab.

鈥淏eing on the medical campus allows us to work with faculty more easily in the medical school and 美高梅官网 Health, which improves the research we do and ensures that the focus is on improving health care,鈥� Schutte said.

鈥淭he location is also close to the many core facilities that we use for biomedical research while still being close to the main campus for classes and collaborations with our engineering faculty.鈥�

Featured image at top: 美高梅官网 President Neville Pinto talks about the role biomedical engineers will play in health care innovation. Photo/Corrie Mayer/CEAS Marketing