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Attachment B <br />Targeted Industries <br />GENERAL TARGETS (from RTRP Clusters of Innovation, with emphasis on <br />clusters in which UNC-Chapel Hill has research strength): <br />Biological Agents and Infectious Diseases <br />Opportunities in the area of biological agents include not only public health but also <br />protection of the environment, water supplies and food sources (plant and animal) from <br />natural or terrorist exposure to biological agents. Infectious disease is receiving <br />increased attention because of emerging or re-emerging infectious disease (e.g. mad <br />cow disease, West Nile virus, SARS), drug resistance across all classes of microbial <br />pathogens and bioterrorism. At the regional level, the Research Triangle has multiple <br />strengths, including <br />• World-class public and environmental health research organizations <br />• Discovery and development of new infectious disease therapeutics <br />• Sensors and sensor webs, analytical instrumentation and data mining, which will <br />be critical to early detection and monitoring of outbreaks <br />• Nanomaterials research, which will provide improved barrier systems for infection <br />control <br />Pervasive Computing <br />Pervasive computing enables on-demand access to information from anywhere at <br />anytime. Creation of pervasive computing networks involves integrating wireless <br />technologies, optical communications and computational hardware and software -all <br />areas of strength in the region. The rise of pervasive computing networks will create <br />opportunities in areas such as: <br />• Medical devices that enable monitoring of patients in real-time and improve the <br />quality of health care in rural areas <br />• Wearable electronics that are incorporated into textiles or miniaturized to be <br />worn unobtrusively on the body <br />• Sensor networks deployed at remote locations for various uses, including <br />inventory tracking <br />• Laboratory information management systems, especially to support <br />pharmaceutical research and clinical trials <br />Advanced Medical Care <br />In the next 10-2Q years, combined advances in several fields -medical devices and <br />diagnostics, drugs and drug delivery systems, genomics and proteomics, <br />telecommunications and informatics -will revolutionize medical case. Our region offers <br />world-class health care institutions that will continue to lead in the evolution of quality <br />health care. Examples of advanced medical care advances include: <br />• Diagnostic tests to identify early cellular and molecular changes that are <br />characteristic of a given disease <br />• Injectable nanomachines that deliver localized drugs, clean arteries, selectively <br />destroy cancer cells or repair organs <br />• Gene therapy to treat tumors <br />