Life Sciences Institute

  1. September 5, 2017

    Fellows program aims to develop life sciences leaders

    The university is launching a new, multidisciplinary, postdoctoral research fellowship program — the Michigan Life Sciences Fellows — to help attract early-career researchers of exceptional promise.

  2. August 31, 2017

    Biosciences Initiative Coordinating Committee

    Members of the Biosciences Initiative Coordinating Committee are: • Roger Cone, chair; vice provost and director of the Biosciences Initiative; Asa Gray Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences, Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute; research professor, LSI; and professor of molecular and integrative physiology, Medical School. • Huda Akil, Gardner C. Quarton…
  3. August 31, 2017

    Committee to help find emerging opportunities for bioscience research

    President Mark Schlissel has commissioned a new multidisciplinary faculty committee to help U-M researchers identify and pursue the “spectacularly fertile landscape for discovery” in today’s biological sciences.

  4. June 16, 2016

    Roger Cone named director of Life Sciences Institute

    Roger D. Cone, a distinguished obesity researcher and experienced administrator, will serve as the new Mary Sue Coleman Director of U-M’s Life Sciences Institute, effective Sept. 1.

  5. April 18, 2016

    Stop the growth: U-M researchers take aim at cancer metastasis

    Researchers at the Life Sciences Institute are taking aim at a different piece of the cancer puzzle — preventing its ability to spread to new parts of the body.

  6. February 17, 2016

    New anti-biofilm compounds may aid fight against hospital infections

    U-M researchers have discovered a new class of anti-biofilm compounds that show promise against a drug-resistant bacterium commonly associated with hospital-acquired infections.

  7. February 3, 2016

    Center for the Discovery of New Medicines funds five projects

    The Center for the Discovery of New Medicines has awarded funding for five new drug discovery projects by U-M faculty that address critical health areas.

  8. June 16, 2015

    Search begins for new director of Life Sciences Institute

    An advisory committee has been appointed to launch the search for the next Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute.

  9. April 16, 2015

    Cancer researcher named Life Sciences Institute interim director

    Dr. Stephen J. Weiss will become interim director of the university’s Life Sciences Institute. His appointment, effective Sept. 1, was approved Thursday by the Board of Regents.

  10. June 4, 2014

    Research fellow’s exhibit explores where neuroscience, art meet

    Lia Min works at the intersection of art and science, which is on display in an exhibit that runs through Friday at the Life Sciences Institute.