LIBR Program has Catalyzed the Formation of a “Quadrangle of Neuroscience Research”

The LIBR program catalyzed the formation of a “Quadrangle of Neuroscience Research”, which brought together researchers from Tulsa University (TU), Oklahoma University School of Community Medicine (OUSCM) and Oklahoma Medcial Research Foundation (OMRF), all of which have made commitments of individual and collaborative research activities, into a consortium arrangement. The studies undertaken by this consortium will facilitate the dissection of specific neuropsychiatric diseases and their related genetic or environmental influences that dictate responses to unique pharmacological or psychological therapies. The consortium already has active collaborative relationships with TU’s highly ranked Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, which also includes a new Institute of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IBCB), and training relationships for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with OUSCM, which is expanding as an academic medical center that will emphasize clinical neuroscience as an overarching research activity. Finally, OMRF has become an outstanding biomedical research institution capable of basic science studies of the complex molecular genetics of human disease and animal models of human disease, as well as studies related to drug-design, pharmacokinetics and targeted gene disruption.