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New Faces OVPR Creates Research Quality Global Women's Health Research Center Debuts Discovery Park has created a Global Women's Health Research Center (GWHRC) aimed at improving wom- en's health through research and training. Directed by Connie Weaver, distinguished profes- sor and head, Nutrition Science Department, the center aims to protect and improve women's health and well-being through prevention. Focusing on four core research areas — wellness, bone health, women's cancers and neurodegenerative diseases — researchers will develop diagnostic and treatment technologies. As Weaver notes, "Purdue University has an infra- structure in place for studying disease prevention and development of biomedical technologies, as well as an established network for community engagement and global health research through the National Insti- tutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Sci- ence Institute." Discovery Park — where the GWHRC will be headquartered — also houses the Bindley Bioscience Center and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, where researchers have access to advanced analytical technologies. "At Purdue, we also have significant strengths in areas such as the development of diagnostic tools for breast cancer initiation and rapid screening meth- ods for effective anti-bone loss interventions," adds Weaver, who also is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. "These ongoing research programs can be leveraged to build a comprehensive program that will positively affect women's health and well-being." tory or business areas, and all ongoing compliance and sponsored program support activities will continue in their existing reporting structures," says Mike Szczepanski, who leads the office. "Rather, the new unit's role will be to monitor these efforts and assess University- wide performance." Szczepanski previously worked as the quality assurance monitor Assurance Unit The Office of the Vice President for Research has established the Re- search Quality Assurance Unit (RQAU) within the Research Integrity and Regulatory Affairs area. Designed to review and monitor Purdue's research administration and research regulatory compliance practices and provide leadership when conducting comprehensive reviews of the university's compliance activities, the RQAU will coordinate education and training of principal investigators, project staff, and departmental and business office staff regarding compliance with federal and state regulation and Purdue policies relating to research. "The RQAU will not assume the duties of the operational regula- for Financial Management and held other positions in Sponsored Program Services (SPS) and Business Services Computing. His office is Young Hall 749. Contact him at 496-6653 or mikes@purdue.edu. Working with him are Tom Wright and Randy Bryant. Wright brings knowledge from his previous position in SPS as the senior operations manager for Financial Compliance & Audit. Wright' 744. Contact him at 494-1047 or tbwright@purdue.edu. Bryant comes to the OVPR from SPS, where he was the training s office is Young Hall coordinator. Previously he worked on the OnePurdue implementa- tion. Bryant's office is Young Hall 747. Contact him at 494-8715 or rbryant@purdue.edu. The RQAU was formed in late 2011 and will be comprised of five to six staff with knowledge in financial, sponsored program manage- ment and research regulatory areas. "Over the past several years, the number, size and complexity of sponsored projects awarded to Pur- due researchers (faculty) have increased many fold, The GWHRC will be a home for projects such as the Interdepartmental Breast Cancer and Nutri- tion project and Cancer Prevention at Purdue. Close partners are the Indiana Clinical and Transla- tional Science Institute and the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research. Discovery Park Hires Managing Director for Oncological Sciences and Global Women's Health Research Centers "This presents increasing challenges to Purdue faculty, OVPR regula- tory staff and Sponsored Programs Services staff in their responsibilities to assure compliance with applicable federal, state, and University policies and regulations." For more information or Li Yuan Mi is the new managing director for the Oncological Sciences Center (OSC). She will split her time between the OSC and the Global Women's Health Research Center, a new Discovery Park center that will be headed by Connie Weaver, distin- guished professor and head, Nutrition Science Department. Mi comes to Purdue from Harvard-MIT, a joint health sciences and technology ven- ture in Cambridge, Mass., where she served as a postdoctoral fellow funded by John- son & Johnson. She has a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the City University of New York. Mi's office is in Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. 4 OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH to request assistance, con- tact Szczepanski at mikes@ purdue.edu. " says Szczepanski.