General Session: Stanford's realigned research model and facility strategy to fit NIH funding changes

With NIH research funding changes, a looming academic medical center problem is excess space, surplus staff, shrinking research groups, and less purchasing power. Here, David O’Brien sets out strategies being explored by Stanford including a new, more flexible biomedical research model that adapts research funding, space utilization, and the planning of new research facilities to a more competitive, less predictable flow of research funds. He examines the current equations of operating-cost vs anticipated revenue that are driving the new Stanford approach, and he highlights the impact of this new approach on capital planning and research facility design.

• David J. O’Brien , Director, Institutional Planning - Stanford University Medical School