HEalth Ambassadors with the LPRC (HEAL)
The Research Generator (RG) HEalth Ambassadors with the LPRC (LPRC stands for Eli Lilly and Company and Purdue University Research Alliance Center) is a community of practice of students, faculty, and staff interested in the pharmaceutical industry challenge of developing effective and affordable therapeutics to tackle the diseases that currently affect large portions of the world population from cancer to Alzheimer, to diabetes, and many more.
Together we will:
- Generate ideas through:
- Brainstorming sessions
- Faculty/graduate student talks and roundtables
- Lilly partner roundtables
- Develop our professional skills with:
- Site visits to Lilly
- LPRC lab-crawl
- Seminars
- Mingle events with professionals (academic and industry – LPRC grad students at Purdue and former LPRC grad students who are now Lilly employees)
- Work on research projects:
- Directed by LPRC faculty - paths to complete scholarly projects
HEAL Faculty & Staff:
Pavlos Vlachos
HEAL Co-Director
LPRC Director
St. Vincent Health Professor of Healthcare Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering
Laura Cayon
HEAL Co-Director
LPRC Academic-Industry Research Coordinator
Brett Meyers
HEAL Assistant Director
LPRC Research Scientist
What it means to be an affiliate
All HEAL affiliates will be onboarded at the LPRC at the beginning of each semester and will receive all communications regarding idea generation and professional development activities, research opportunities, and other news of relevance to this community of practice.
- All new affiliates will join HEAL at Level 1
- The LPRC will approve participation at each of the two levels
Affiliate Levels
Level 1 Affiliate - A student who participates in at least two activities per semester programmed under the idea generation and professional development initiatives. Students can remain at this level for as many semesters as desired.
- Participation per semester in less than two of the activities mentioned above will result in loss of level 1 affiliation; the student will be offboarded from LPRC, and all communications will stop.
Level 2 Affiliate – A student who (1) has completed the requirements for level 1 affiliation, (2) is conducting research under the supervision of a faculty affiliate and (3) participates in at least one activity per semester under the idea generation and professional development initiatives.
- Students are responsible for applying to the research opportunities shared with all HEAL affiliates throughout the semester.
- Research opportunities exclusive to HEAL affiliates will require for the candidates to be in good standing of their affiliation status at the time of student selection – level 1 affiliates should have completed a minimum of two activities and level 2 affiliates should have completed a minimum of one activity.
- HEAL Scholarly Project Pathway
