It will be a unique and powerful resource for the university and Kentucky. We want to be able to look at the interaction between environment and illness.

It will be an ideal data set for students and physicians who have a very specific hypothesis that can be answered using the information we already have available.

We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.

That's a general problem with biomedical research -- it's hard to attract the people who may need it most.

The University of Kentucky. That's what I've decided. I'm so happy. I'm just happy, so happy.

The goal of the IRIS project is to develop administrative systems that allow the University of Kentucky to change business practices to meet the demands of the 21st century.