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Academia and Industry: Working Together for Biomedical Advances
Traditionally, research universities have immersed themselves in the creation of knowledge, while corporations have been concerned solely with the creation of profit. Those missions were clear cut and rarely did they intersect-until now.

WSU Considered Model Program in Prenatal Genetic Analysis
Applied Biosystems offers its many customers a wide array of hardware and software products. With its strong expertise in genetic analysis, Wayne State University is one of only a few customers in the country using nearly every product and technology that Applied Biosystems makes. This uniquely positions WSU to be a major player in bioinformatics and biotechnology development.

WSU Gets Early Access To Corning Technology
When Corning Inc. released its CMT Yeast Gene Array in 2001, it was the first product in a brand new market line and it was the public's first look at Corning's Microarray Technologies. Wayne State University's Dr. Craig Giroux, however, had already been testing the product for many months.

Dr. Joan Dunbar: Research Matchmaker
When it comes to entrepreneurial spirit, it takes one to know one. Perhaps that's the reason Joan Dunbar, PhD, was appointed director of biotechnology development at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She recognizes an opportunity when she sees it and she knows how to bring collaborators together.