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3D Animation

Our 3D animation program was established in 2003 with financial support from Champlin Foundations and has covered various topics over the years that span from Resistance of the Cancer Drug Iressa, to Mechanism of the Antidepressant Prozac. It has become a collaborative effort between faculty and students to produce educational tools to facilitate the explanation of complex topics to their peers.

Below are some examples of animations created by URI students and faculty. To see more, please visit our YouTube channel. Note that our YouTube clips have been viewed and used to educate students all over the world, and we're getting close to one million views! It's just one more way that we Think Big at URI.

Mechanism of Iressa Drug Resistance

Mechanism of Prozac

Factors Affecting Drug Distribution in the Body

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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 marksIt helps students remember the material better; I can still visualize the animation in my head.

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