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Welcome to the

"3D Facility" for Biomedical Sciences:

Animation, Visualization, and Printing

Students wearing 3D glasses

Making Science Visible in 3D

What if you could hold a virus or an antibody in your hands?

Or actually watch as a cancer drug kinks a DNA, thus blocking its repair?

Guess what? You can.

At URI, we have created a one-of-a-kind program where students can animate, view, and print three-dimensional models to help them visualize and understand complex concepts and processes. Through this program, our faculty and students have discovered the incredible power of 3D printing and animation as effective teaching tools.

in the news

Symposium art
Sean Gilman's "Mechanism of Iressa Drug Resistance" featured in the official banner of September 14, 2012 Pharmacy Symposium, Drug Therapy in the 21st Century: Discovery and Clinical Use.

URI's YouTube site of 3D biomedical science videos receives 1 million hits

URI's 3D animation work featured in the January 2012 issue of International Innovation magazine. Article (PDF)

Students touch nano-particles, take robots for walks (Innovations, 2012)

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student voices


quotation marksIf a picture is worth a thousand words, then these types of animations are invaluable.

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