VCURES to Participate in VCU Governor's School for Medicine and Life Sciences:

The VCU's Governor's School for Medicine and Life Sciences has chosen VCURES to participate in its 2002 summer program. The program is designed for Virginia's best and brightest high school students as an intensive immersion into medicine and the life sciences. This summer's program will focus on biologic complexity. A number of disease processes were chosen which emphasis the great need for a multidisciplinary and bioinformatic approach to problem solving. The disease of Trauma and Multisystem Organ Failure was one of 5 disease processes chosen. Students will be provided several lectures and clinical tours, which demonstrate the challenges and complexity involved in the study of leading cause of death in the 1-45 year age group. An emphasis will be placed on linking of the microcirculation after injury to dynamic changes in the genomic response. Drs. Rao Ivatury and Kevin Ward both associate directors for VCURES will provide oversight to this program.

VCURES is collaborating with VCU Life Sciences and its Center for the Study of Biologic Complexity in http://www.vcu.edu/lifesci/overview/index.html in developing a novel multisdisciplinary bioinformatic approach to the study of trauma-induced multisystem organ failure. For more information please contact Dr. Ward at krward@hsc.vcu.edu.