This project is funded by Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)
award from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of
the National Institutes of Health
Above, regenerative medicine
web site for K-10.
Regenerative Medicine
THE FUTURE OF HEALTH
This project is a collaboration with the Department of Biological
Sciences, Bayer
School of
Natural and Environmental Sciences, Department
of Journalism
and Interactive
Media and the School
of Education at Duquesne University, along with the
Carnegie Science Center among other key institutions in Pittsburgh.
The
project is aimed at developing unique educational programs focusing on regenerative
medicine, health literacy and health care of the future.
Planetarium Shows
The centerpiece of the
project will be a series of innovative planetarium shows - Regenerative
Medicine: The Body Healing Itself. Each show will
bring together technology and the arts to communicate four specific elements
of information:
- the basic biology of the tissue or organ of interest,
- what goes wrong with disease or trauma,
- what is the basis of current
medicine and
- how will the body heals itself through regenerative medicine.