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WHERE SCIENCE CREATES HOPE

At Indiana University, we're delivering life science breakthroughs at life-saving speed. We're expanding our understanding of the brain, driving innovation in orthopedics, delivering new treatments and cures for cancer and obesity, and solving tomorrow’s problems today.

IU DELIVERS

FROM CARE TO CURES

Indiana University turns biosciences discoveries into real-world impact. By bringing together researchers, clinicians and innovators, IU is uncovering new ways to understand disease, accelerating promising discoveries toward new treatments and building the expertise and partnerships needed to improve human health in Indiana and beyond.

Treating Parkinson's

Rethinking brain health

Indiana University researchers are challenging long-held assumptions about Parkinson’s disease by investigating how chronic inflammation and changes in the immune system may contribute to the disease before symptoms appear. By looking beyond the brain for early warning signs, IU scientists are opening new possibilities for identifying people at risk sooner and developing treatments that could delay or slow neurodegenerative disease.

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Leading bioscience innovation

Fighting HPV-related cancers

Indiana University physician-scientist Dr. Elliot Androphy is turning decades of research into new hope for people with HPV-related cancers. His team discovered promising drug-like molecules designed to restore the body’s natural ability to suppress tumor growth. Now, at Indianapolis-based Kovina Therapeutics, Androphy is working to move that IU innovation from the lab toward new treatments for patients around the world.

Discover breakthroughs

Seeing success in the lab convinced me to make the leap to form a company. You can have promising science, but getting a drug to patients requires building the administrative infrastructure and capital to move it forward.

Dr. Elliot Androphy
IU School of Medicine
Leading the science of memory

FIGHTING ALZHEIMER'S WITH PRECISION SCIENCE

One in 10 Hoosiers aged 65 and older are affected by Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. Indiana University researchers are leading efforts to end Alzheimer's through advanced cellular models called organoids that mimic the structure of the human brain. With just a blood sample, we're transforming our understanding of the brain and speeding up the process of discovery.

An elderly woman is hugged by a younger woman with an image of a colorful brain scan to the right all connected by a light crimson frame.
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    Largest
    school of medicine in the nation
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    $1 billion
    in research expenditures at IU in FY25
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    $99 billion
    value of Indiana's growing life sciences economy
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    7.2 million
    Americans living with Alzheimer's or other dementias
FROM VISION TO IMPACT

REAL CHALLENGES. REAL SOLUTIONS.

Follow the latest stories and see how IU is working with communities to solve what’s next—from every corner of Indiana to our nine campuses and beyond.
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IU’s partnerships and collaborations span industries and communities, helping shape a stronger future for Hoosiers and the state of Indiana.