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The Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education (RegMed or Partnership in Education) is a non-profit multidisciplinary health literacy and informal science education project working out of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Partnership in Education produces planetarium shows and other multimedia that focus on topics in health and biology, particularly research in tissue engineering.〔http://sepa.duq.edu/aboutus/index.html Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education : About us〕〔http://sepa.duq.edu/press/Press_Releases.html Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education : Press releases〕 The project is directed by founder and principal investigator John A. Pollock, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Science at Duquesne University. It is funded primarily by a five-year Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded to Pollock through Duquesne University. The Partnership received supplemental funding from different sources since its establishment in 2005, including the NCRR and the United States Department of Education. The project employs a creative team of artists, researchers and student interns, and collaborates with outside researchers, artists and other professionals from many Pittsburgh-based science initiatives, cultural institutions, hospitals, universities and public and private elementary and secondary schools. ==Background== Before creating the Partnership in Education, Pollock worked with the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI) on several planetarium shows while acting as a Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, an interdisciplinary arts center that enables art-science collaboration.〔http://www.cmu.edu/studio/overview/index.html Studio for creative inquiry : Overview〕 He was co-director and science adviser for the internationally distributed ''Gray Matters: The Brain Movie'' (2000) and science adviser for ''Journey into the Living Cell'' (1996),〔http://www.ptei.org/interior.php?pageID=145〕 where he first collaborated with the films’ associate director and researcher Patricia Maurides, then also a Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and current Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon.〔http://sepa.duq.edu/press/Press_Releases.html Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education : Press releases. "Project Overview - Tissue Engineering for Life."〕〔http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/people/22-PatriciaMaurides〕 From 2000 to 2005, Pollock and his collaborators received a five-year SEPA grant of $1.62 million to create a new planetarium show about tissue engineering, ''Tissue Engineering for Life'' (2003), at the time the largest amount given by the NIH for informal science education.〔http://sepa.duq.edu/press/Press_Releases.html Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education : Press releases. "Project Overview - Tissue Engineering for Life."〕 Acting as director, Pollock again partnered with PTEI and Maurides, as well as several new researchers and artists including animator Laura Gonzalez. ''Tissue Engineering for Life'' debuted in 2003 at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh as the world’s first tissue engineering planetarium show. Pollock then continued collaboration with Maurides, Gonzalez and PTEI to create two additional planetarium shows, ''Regenerobot and the Robot Science Fair'' and ''Dr. Allevable's Unbelievable Laboratory - Bone and Heart'' under the 2000-2005 SEPA grant. In 2006, Pollock received a second five-year SEPA grant in the amount of $1.3 million and created the Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education hosted by Duquesne University. Projects from 2005 and onwards involved the continued collaboration with Gonzalez and Maurides, bringing in artists Robert Hoggard and Joana Ricou, and working with several individuals from Duquesne University, the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Science Center, and scientists, artists and physicians from other Pittsburgh institutions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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