Professor Connie Weaver of the Botanicals Research Center
Distinguished Professor of Foods and Nutrition Connie Weaver is head director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Botanicals Research Center for Age Related Diseases. Based at Purdue in collaboration with the University of Alabama-Birmingham and investigators at Rutgers University, Indiana University School of Medicine, and University of Illinois, the center studies the effectiveness and mechanism of action of polyphenolic compounds purported to reduce the risk of cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, cognitive function, and other age-related diseases.
Aviation tech students conduct hands-on research
Bindley Bioscience Center in Discovery Park
Bindley Bioscience Center in Discovery Park
Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park
Discovery Park's Birck Nanotechnology Center
Faculty research supports the Purdue Cancer Center
Computer technology students see their work in progress
Purdue is a leader in Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education
A mechanical engineering
technology grad student gets to work
Professor Eric Stach at the Birck Nanotechnology Center
An aerial view of Discovery Park, Purdue's interdisciplinary research hub
Industrial pharmacy student researchers at work in the lab
Graduate student researcher Philip Morton
Regenstrief, Purdue strengthen efforts to improve healthcare
Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering director Steven Witz, from left, and Purdue communications professor Bart Collins experiment with new technology that will be used to help design a telehealth model to promote patient learning and improve self-care. In this test, Witz and Collins are communicating via computer with Hannah Kim, a doctoral student in education technology, and Scott Schaffer, a Purdue professor of education technology.
Needle-size device tracks tumors, radiation dose
Purdue engineer Babak Ziaie shows the prototype wireless device he has developed with doctoral student Chulwoo Son at the university's Birck Nanotechnology Center. The device fits inside a hypodermic needle to be injected into tumors to tell doctors the precise dose of radiation being received through therapy. The technology will eventually be shrunk to the size of a rice grain and also will be able to locate a tumor's exact position in real-time.
