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You, Us and Dataseam Making a Difference in Kentucky A Big Difference

You, Us and Dataseam Making a Difference in Kentucky A Big Difference. Dr. James R. Ramsey President University of Louisville. December 8, 2009. You know the statistics… You may be a statistic… #1 Mortality Rate - 987 per 100,000 people - 842 is National Average

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You, Us and Dataseam Making a Difference in Kentucky A Big Difference

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  1. You, Us and Dataseam Making a Difference in Kentucky A Big Difference Dr. James R. Ramsey President University of Louisville December 8, 2009

  2. You know the statistics… You may be a statistic… • #1 Mortality Rate - 987 per 100,000 people - 842 is National Average • #1 Cancer Death Rate - 237 per 100,000 people - 202 is National Avg. • #4 Cardiovascular Death Rate • #5 Heart Disease • #12 Stroke

  3. Our (UofL) Focus • Public Agenda • Specific Mandate • World class cancer center

  4. Our (All of Us) Challenge

  5. But we cannot let the • economy or the budget • stop us or slow us down!

  6. Partnerships can prove that1+1>2 • “Dataseam” • A partnership between K-12, higher education and an entrepreneurial company (neat bunch of guys) • A university sending its top scientists to school districts to talk about the importance of math and science • Efficient use of resources, specifically using computer capacity in the schools to do cancer research

  7. Partnerships can prove that1+1>2 • Creating new cancer drugs that have been licensed to a private company – Advanced Cancer Therapeutics – that is providing the capital to help move these drugs through clinical trials to the market • Great legislative support • Thank you Representative Rocky Adkins! • Student financial aid for students throughout Kentucky

  8. Partnerships can prove that1+1>2 Students at S. Floyd High School developed a website for the researchers at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center This provided the students with an opportunity to be creative, set goals and to be “life long learners”.

  9. Thank you!

  10. Helping Kentucky; Helping the WorldUofL and James Graham Brown Cancer Center • Three (3) drugs in early stage clinical trials • Four (4) drugs in “late” preclinical development • Twenty four (24) compounds in preclinical development

  11. Helping Kentucky; Helping the WorldUofL and James Graham Brown Cancer Center • More than $50 million invested since 1999 in building the drug development program • More than $80 million in total Federal funding to support drug development research • More than 50 scientists • focused in the discovery • and development of novel • anti-cancer therapeutics

  12. Tobacco Based HPV Vaccine

  13. The Role of Bucks for Brains Kakar Ng Zundel Goldstein Ghim Rodu Bates Research Support Trent Palmer Li Clark Telang Jenson Sankar Ng Mitchell Higashi Chesney Davis Singh Zacharias Jala Wattenberg Miller Fan Lane Arumugan Lillard Eaton Bodduluri Yan Ye Cunningham Chaires Ratajczak Ratajczak Sun Hollifield Dean Reca Lu Hein Kidd Gupta Kucia Ravoori McGregor Parrish Baumgartner R. States Stansbury Martin 10 Bucks for Brains Chairs 55 New Faculty $26,925,760 Research Support in 2007 Baumgartner K.

  14. How does this tie in to UofL’s mission? We are expected to help improve economic opportunity and quality of life for Kentuckians (HB1 – 1997). 14

  15. Thank you! This would not be possible without people like you. Happy Holidays! 15

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