You, Us and DataseamMaking a Difference in Kentucky

A Big Difference

December 8, 2009

Dr. James R. RamseyPresident

University of Louisville

You know the statistics…

You may be a statistic…• #1 Mortality Rate - 987 per 100,000 people - 842 is

National Average• #1 Cancer Death Rate - 237 per 100,000 people - 202

is National Avg.• #4 Cardiovascular Death Rate• #5 Heart Disease• #12 Stroke

Our (UofL) Focus

• Public Agenda

• Specific Mandate

• World class cancer center

Our (All of Us) Challenge

But we cannot let the economy or the budget

stop us or slow us down!

Partnerships can prove that1+1>2

“Dataseam”• A partnership between K-12, higher education and an

entrepreneurial company (neat bunch of guys)

• A university sending its top scientists to school districts to talk about the importance of math and science

• Efficient use of resources, specifically using computer capacity in the schools to do cancer research

Partnerships can prove that1+1>2

• Creating new cancer drugs that have been licensed to a private company – Advanced Cancer Therapeutics – that is providing the capital to help move these drugs through clinical trials to the market

• Great legislative supportThank you Representative Rocky Adkins!

• Student financial aid for students throughout Kentucky

Partnerships can prove that1+1>2

Students at S. Floyd High School developed a website for the

researchers at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center

This provided the students with an opportunity to be creative, set

goals and to be “life long learners”.

Thank you!

Helping Kentucky; Helping the WorldUofL and James Graham Brown Cancer Center

• Three (3) drugs in early stage clinical trials

• Four (4) drugs in “late” preclinical development

• Twenty four (24) compounds in preclinical development

Helping Kentucky; Helping the WorldUofL and James Graham Brown Cancer Center

• More than $50 million invested since 1999 in building the drug development program

• More than $80 million in total Federal funding to support drug development research

• More than 50 scientists focused in the discovery and development of novel anti-cancer therapeutics

Tobacco Based HPV Vaccine

The Role of Bucks for Brains

Research Support

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10 Bucks for Brains Chairs55 New Faculty$26,925,760 Research Support in 2007

We are expected to help improve economic opportunity and

quality of life for Kentuckians (HB1 – 1997).

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How does this tie in to UofL’s mission?

Thank you!

This would not be possible without people like you.

Happy Holidays!

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