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![A scientist sitting on chair with her hand on her face smiling at the camera]( "Donna Wilcock, PhD, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders, in her lab on the 10th floor of the Medical Education and Research Building. \"If we were looking to cure mice of Alzheimer's,\" she says, \"we've done that hundreds of times. We need to make sure that whatever we're looking at actually happens in the disease.\" (Photos by AJ Mast)")
The Vascular Side of Alzheimer’s Disease
Most Alzheimer's research focuses on plaques. Donna Wilcock's lab at IU School of Medicine is focused on what's happening in the blood vessels — and ...
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![A man and a women holding a hand plow]( "The 1965 groundbreaking for University Hospital marked another milestone in IU School of Medicine's century-long expansion. For six decades after this ceremony, the school would keep building — research centers, cancer institutes, neuroscience facilities — but not a single new space where students learned to become physicians. (Photos Courtesy of IU Indianapolis Special Collections and Archives)")
What We Build
For six decades, medical education and research steadily outgrew their footprint. The Medical Education and Research Building marks a turning point — not just in ...
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![hands holding on surgery tools]( "A future surgeon practices suturing on a simulated skin pad in the Surgical Skills Lab. Mastering the technique here — on a surface designed to mimic real tissue — comes before moving to cadavers, and eventually, to live patients.")
Practiced Precision
No harm to patients, maximum realism. Inside IU School of Medicine's new Surgical Skills Center, the stakes are low by design — because when the ...
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![Three people sitting listening to someone else speaking]( "At IU School of Medicine—West Lafayette, classes of about two dozen students naturally foster close relationships. \"West Lafayette really is its own Professional Learning Community,\" said associate dean Matthew Tews.")
Community, Adapted
The learning community model that works in Indianapolis doesn't work in a campus of 30 students, or a region that stretches into Chicago. Here's how ...
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![Photo of couple of people talking]( "Professional learning communities at IU School of Medicine are designed to help students form professional identities before they ever set foot in a clinic. (Photos by AJ Mast)")
Finding Community in the Nation's Largest Medical School
Inside the new Medical Education and Research Building, Professional Learning Communities make it feel just a little bit smaller.
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![A researcher holding a syringe and inserting in test tube in a lab setting.]( "Abigail Wallace, lab manager for Alzheimer's researcher Donna Wilcock, at the bench in the Medical Education and Research Building. The work is precise by necessity. Consistency ensures the data can be trusted, compared and reproduced. (Photos by AJ Mast)")
The Person the Lab Runs On
In Donna Wilcock's Alzheimer's lab, Abigail Wallace is the person everyone trusts — with the mice, the money and the science itself.
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![Liz Agosto, wearing a white coat and standing in the anatomy lab]( "Liz Agosto, PhD, in the new anatomy lab at IU School of Medicine, where first-year students meet their first patients — body donors whose gifts make the work possible. (Photos by Tim Yates)")
The Room Where Medicine Begins
An open and bright anatomy lab at Indiana University School of Medicine influences how medical students move, learn and collaborate — while reinforcing respect for ...
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The Gift of Quality Time
IU neurologist-oncologist Na Tosha Gatson wants her brain cancer patients to live longer. More than that, she wants them to live well. Kathy Lane is ...
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Glowing Proof
A molecule born in a Purdue University lab and tested at IU School of Medicine has become the backbone of a new generation of targeted ...
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Curing Cancer, Cultivating Leaders
Forever associated with the cure for testicular cancer, Lawrence Einhorn, MD, has also built another formidable legacy – training 50 years of IU oncologists.
