The University of Michigan has successfully stolen courted a cardiovascular research center away from its longtime home at he State University of New York's Upstate Medical University research center.
The leadership and most of the staff will move to a temporary lab in Ann Arbor by Spring.
U-M's Cardiovascular Center will grow by more than 25 scientists, physicians, students and research staff.
The U-M Medical Center already has a dozen or so doctors and researchers who focus on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmia.
The additional staff from SUNY, Syracuse will try to pinpoint causes at the genetic, cellular, and molecular levels.
"The idea is to build a continuum and Michigan is a perfect for that," says a 25-year veteran from the SUNY research center.
The New York group brings $5 million in research grants to add to the school's current sponsored research budget of $342 million.
Some 310,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest each year.
The move to Michigan - collaboration rather than a competitive threat saysthe chief of cardiovascular medicine and director of the Heart Rhythm Center for Beaumont Hospital.
Yeah, right. Tell that to SUNY, Syracuse.
Do you think schools should try to steal from one another, collaborate in this way?
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