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(WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.) – The Indiana Biosciences Research Institute has signed a collaboration agreement with Purdue.

The Indianapolis nonprofit already partnered with Purdue on some research, but Purdue biologist Richard Kuhn, the director of the Institute of Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Disease, says the expanded agreement makes IBRI researchers the equivalent of Purdue students or faculty. Researchers at one institution or another will have instant access to the roster of who has the skills they need for a specific project, instead of submitting a request and waiting for something to be worked out. 

And Kuhn says the two institutions have overlapping missions but different skill sets. The expanded expertise will assist in applying for research grants.

Kuhn says several joint projects are already underway, including an effort to use mass spectroscopy to more quickly identify deadly bacteria.  

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