About the Center

The goal of the Center is to advance knowledge about injury mechanisms and responses to injury that are relevant to altered health conditions and disease. The center provides an infrastructure that centralizes facilities and resources to support basic and clinical collaborative research endeavors. More specifically, the Center will:

1: Expand the capabilities of the College of Nursing Biological Laboratories in order to support continued studies on injury mechanisms and related responses relevant to health problems and to nursing.
2: Facilitate collaborations among investigators in the College of Nursing and in other disciplines who share research interests in injury mechanisms and related responses.
3: Increase the number of nursing studies that use state-of-the-science methods for investigating injury mechanisms and related responses.

We have received financial support from the National Institute of Nursing Research to support the Center for three years. Funds and resources are available to support new and experienced investigators who share research interests in injury mechanisms and related responses. Center investigators represent a broad range of disciplines and expertise in methods encompassing molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry and physical chemistry, biological imaging techniques and human physiological measures. The collective expertise and research efforts of Center investigators has great potential to advance knowledge about injury mechanisms and related responses relevant to health problems and patient care.