- An estimated $105
million in sponsored research awards has been affected.
- All animal-based
research has been destroyed.
- Almost 4,000 animals
were killed in the flood. The financial loss in animals alone currently
is estimated at $7.4 million dollars. These included:
- Genetically
engineered mice bred to be susceptible to cardiovascular disease,
asthma,
immune deficiency diseases or neurological disorders;
- Monkeys trained
since childhood to do certain cognitive functions for the study
of normal
and abnormal brain development;
- Rabbits and
rats treated with new drugs for many months to determine the long-term
effects of treatment.
- Genetically
engineered mice bred to be susceptible to cardiovascular disease,
asthma,
- 350 to 400 faculty
members and their research projects have been affected. The salary and
benefits of many of these individuals are paid through grants representing
$2.8 million per month, consuming $120,000 each day the school is closed.
Depending upon the reactions of the sponsors of this research, many
of these efforts may be lost.
- Losses that could
take as long as three to four years to redevelop at a cost of more than
$7 million include:
- Cell cultures
developed from human tumors or tissues used to study effects of
new drugs
or cancer cell growth;
- Valuable human
blood and urine research samples from a variety of diseases that
were
under investigation;
- Valuable chemical
reagents and unique bacterial strains used to study diseases.
- Cell cultures
developed from human tumors or tissues used to study effects of
new drugs
- The cyclotron facility
is a total loss. Radioactive chemicals produced here are critical to
a number of sophisticated research applications.
- Many faculty are
feverishly working in borrowed and leased lab space to meet the requirements
of their grants. Displacement of these faculty and their research may
take as long as two months.
- Flooding also resulted in significant equipment losses, including MRI machines and the data associated with them. MRI data, compiled over many years, was used to learn how strokes and blood clots form and block vessels. Images were also used to study both Attention Deficit Hyperactivity in children with normal and abnormal brain development and the impact of drug dependence on cognitive functions.
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