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Scientific Initiatives

LSI Initiatives are working models demonstrating new ways of doing and organizing science. They bring together students, faculty, foundations and biomedical businesses in innovative structures to catalyze discovery and speed our understanding of how to identify and treat disease.

• Collaborative Scientific Discovery -  At the LSI, scientific cooperation coupled with biomedical industry knowledge allows unexpected and exciting discoveries to emerge.

• Disease Research at LSI - LSI labs are probing what goes wrong in disease and why. Multi-disciplinary teams focus on the dynamics of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease, leading to potential new therapeutics.

• The Innovation Partnership embodies collaboration between science and business. Created by U-M donors, the Partnership marshals funds, and “real world” business support to shepherd LSI science on the journey from lab bench to patient bedside. 

• Stem Cell Research at LSI - At the U-M Center for Stem Cell Biology, a dedicated staff of researchers is exploring the use of stem cell dynamics to change the way science approaches disease.

• The U-M/Israeli Universities Partnership in Research sponsors collaborative research teams from U-M and universities in Israel.

• The Perrigo Undergraduate Fellowship offers students from across the state the opportunity to spend the summer in LSI labs and be inspired to practice science in Michigan.

• LSI sponsors a graduate course, The Business of Biology, utilizing industry and academic experts to explore the impact of genomic medicine on business, healthcare and society.