Microsoft on April 4 announced the formation of the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group created to enhance the ability to use and share biomedical data, at the Life Sciences Conference and Expo in Boston.

With $10.5 million in university funding announced Monday, center Director Sean Morrison will recruit seven more researchers over the next four years to join him in work he started at U-M in 1999. Based at U-M's 2-year-old Life Sciences Institute, the program will combine the resources of the university's medical school and Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute as well as aspects of engineering and other programs.