The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority of Spokane, Washington names star-studded advisory panel
| March 21, 2008 |  View for printing |
The Institute for Systems Medicine Planning Authority (ISM) http://ismedicine.org/ has named a strategic advisory board of top national health-care research figures to help guide its efforts to set up an organization that will advance the application of and research into the latest forms of medicine in Spokane.
The planning authority says the new board will propose a blueprint for how the planned institute could interact with health-care providers and universities here to maximum effect and also will help recruit a chief scientific officer and other faculty members.
What are the benefits of the ISM?
* Grow the Economy – Provide 234 high-wage jobs by 2011 with an average wage of $71,818
* Support Education – Give preference to local graduates
* Create the highest concentration of biomedical research in the Spokane region
* Initiate research programs in genomics, epigenomics and systems, chromosomal and computational biology
By Richard Ripley
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