Miami University Bioscience Capabilities

BIOLOGY BIOMEDICINE BIOCHEMISTRY MICROBIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOTECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

BIOSCIENCE CAPABILITIES

KEY FIGURES

52

faculty researchers active in bioscience

9 bioscience patents

U.S., international, or provisional

3 Ohio Centers

OUR CAPABILITIES Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Mass Spectroscopy (MS)

We provide researchers both at Miami and abroad with access to state-of-the-art equipment, including one Varian and six Bruker NMR spectrometers ranging from 200 MHz to 850 MHz. Miami’s Bruker US2 850 MHz spectrometer is one of the largest in the country and unique within Ohio. In addition, we have MS instruments from MALDI, ICP, and ESI.

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)

Miami is home to the Ohio Advanced EPR Laboratory, the most advanced EPR facility in the state. It boasts a state-of-the-art Bruker ELEXSYS E580 spectrometer, capable of both pulse and continuous wave (CW) EPR.

Microspectroscopy

of Excellence

Miami’s Molecular Microspectroscopy Laboratory (MML) provides researchers with state-of-the-art infrared, Raman, and optical microspectroscopy to identify contaminants and characterize materials. Equipment includes a Perkin Elmer Spotlight 300 Infrared Imaging Microscope and a Renishaw In-Via Raman Microscope. MML staff will also modify existing systems or design new systems with in-house components to meet partners’ needs.

2 Ohio

Microscopy

in bioscience fields

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Center for Structural Biology and Metabonomics • Institute for Entrepreneurship • Scripps Gerontology Center

Eminent Scholars

nd 2 highest number of

bioscience degrees awarded in Ohio

bachelor’s degrees, FY2004-2013

60 % medical school

acceptance rate

for Miami students, 2011-2014

127 federal grant awards in FY2014

>$2.9M

in industry partnerships in FY2014

In addition to SEM and TEM equipment, Miami’s Center for Advanced Microscopy and Imaging (CAMI) has laser scanning confocal microscopes and a wide-field multimode light microscope. CAMI also has equipment capable of producing micrometer dissections.

Miami’s Center for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics (CBFG) is a hands-on, full-service training facility serving faculty investigators as well as graduate and undergraduate students. The CBFG has a 64-channel sequencer and high-end computer workstations for genome assembly and bioinformatics analysis.

Tissue Culture

Our dedicated tissue culture facility has Forma Scientific and NuAire laminar flow tissue culture hoods, double-chamber NuAire water-jacketed CO2 incubators, and a Hund/ Wetzlar Wilovert inverted microscope. In addition it is equipped with freezers (-20 °C), refrigerators, water baths, bench-top centrifuges, and liquid N2 cell storage vessels.

Additive Manufacturing for Biomedical Engineering

Miami’s College of Engineering and Computing and the Business, Engineering, Science, and Technology Library offer 3-D printing, scanning, and modeling. A Fab@Home Model 3 Research Platform extrusion printer is outfitted with custom hardware and software modifications to support 3-D printing of dual-component interpenetrating network hydrogel materials with tunable mechanical properties. An Envisiontec 3-D Bioplotter rapid prototyping tool processes a variety of biomaterials in the field of computer-aided tissue engineering.

Virtual Reality and User Experience Testing

The Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS) at Miami University facilitates development of live action virtual reality (VR) or VR games and animations that can be used for research or training. Equipment includes a three-walled/floor immersive VR environment, a Z-Space VR table offering manipulable “float in front of you” 3-D content, Samsung Gear and Occulus Rift VR headsets, a double telepresence robot, a Google Project Tango tablet, and 3-D and VR cameras. AIMS also uses industry-leading Tobii eye-trackers to facilitate user experience studies.

Are you looking to tap into the brightest, most creative, and scholarly minds in Ohio? Miami University has them.

Our nationally recognized research faculty challenge our students every day. As a result, our students develop skills that are broad and deep. More than 2,000 undergraduates work with their professors on funded research each year. Nearly 100% of Miami students participate in an internship, fieldwork, or other form of practiced learning before they graduate. Our graduate students conduct meaningful research that leads to solutions for the most pressing biomedical and environmental issues of our time. Miami’s graduate program alumni are well prepared to assume leading roles in government, industry, and academia.

INTERNSHIPS In 2014, Miami received nearly $750,000 from the Ohio Board of Regents’ Ohio Means Internships and Co-ops grant program. In addition to supporting 83 new Ohio internships, these funds have been used to hire internship coordinators, to develop programs designed to broaden access to current and potential internship employers, and to establish a Cincinnati Digital Innovation Center. All of this makes it easier and more beneficial than ever before to hire Miami student interns.

Whatever talent you need, Miami students fit the bill. We encourage you to learn more by contacting us today.

SOME OF OUR PARTNERS Abbott Nutrition • Advanced Clinical • Anthem, Inc. • Applied Medical • Aptalis • Astra Zeneca • athenahealth • Athersys, Inc. • Battelle • Baxter Healthcare • Beacon Hill Pharma • Bernard Health • The Brandery • Bristol-Myers Squibb • Buckman Labs • Cardinal Health • CareCore National • Catholic Health Partners • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center • CincyTech USA • Cintrifuse • Cleveland Clinic • Compass Clinical Consulting • ComPsych • Consolidated Health Services • Cordata Healthcare Innovations • CoverMyMeds • Eli Lily and Co. • Envision • Epic • E-Technologies Group • Evokes, Inc. • Ferno-Washington, Inc. • FSC Pediatrics • GlaxoSmithKline • Hamilton Mills • HCDC Business Center • Highmark Health • Hill-Rom • INVOTEC Engineering, Inc. • Jedson Engineering • Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company • Kaiser Permanente • Maxim Healthcare Services • MDI Engineering • Medpace • Mercy Health • OCEAN Accelerator • Ohio Health Information Partnership • Premier Health • Prism Medical Products • ProLink Healthcare • Rang Technologies, Inc. • Reid Health • Samova, Inc. • Spectranetics • Standard Register • STERIS Corporation • Sundance Solutions • UC Health • Vora Technology Park • VaxCare • Viersk Analytics • Zimmer, Inc.

OUR NEWEST PARTNERSHIP Miami University and Mercy Health are collaborating on academic initiatives, sports medicine services, and a new sports medicine and rehabilitation center for Miami’s student-athletes.

OUR AFFILIATIONS

JIM ORIS Associate Provost for Research 102 Roudebush Hall • 501 East High Street 513-529-3600 • orisjt@MiamiOH.edu MiamiOH.edu/research/partnering

MIAMI UNIVERSITY: EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT.

DESIGNED BY OARS 10/2015