Life Sciences Institute

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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 5, 2014
LSI to celebrate 10 years of discovery at two-day symposium

The Life Sciences Institute will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a two-day biomedicine symposium featuring former U-M researchers May 14-15 at Palmer Commons.