UNM President David Schmidly and Mind Research Network President and CEO John Rasure recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement to enhance cooperative research and development of neuroscience technology. The UNM-MRN Intellectual Property Agreement also creates a new academic title, the UNM-MRN professor.
Photo: UNM President David J. Schmidly and Mind Research Network President and CEO John Rasure.
The position is intended to help MRN recruit outstanding neuroscientists who also benefit from the academic environment UNM provides. The position facilitates the relationship between MRN and UNM scientists, faculty and administration. MRN will also provide financial support to the college and department of each MRN professor, allowing UNM to reinvest those resources into growing university research efforts.
“This will enhance UNM’s ability to recruit nationally recognized faculty,” said Schmidly. “It will also offer support to our academic departments as the MRN professors will be teaching classes.”
The position facilitates the relationship between MRN and UNM scientists, faculty and administration. MRN will also provide financial support to the college and department of each MRN professor, allowing UNM to reinvest those resources into growing university research efforts.
“As MRN grows, our partnership with UNM becomes more important,” said MRN President and CEO John Rasure. “This agreement will facilitate commercializing diagnostic technology related to brain disease and mental illness, and help UNM and MRN attract some of the best research talent in the country.”
Both Schmidly and Rasure acknowledged that former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici has been a guiding force and strong supporter of UNM and MRN and his support played a major role in being able to reach the agreement.
MRN researchers are working with imaging and biogenetics tools to find earlier and better ways to diagnose and treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, epilepsy, addiction, traumatic brain injury, and many other brain disorders.
MRN scientists work in collaboration UNM, Harvard, Yale, MIT, the University of Minnesota, and other universities, national laboratories, and research centers across the nation.
Media contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627; kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by kwentworth at July 30, 2009 04:42 PM