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NCRR Develops Strategic Plan
NCRR, the National Center for Research Resources, is seeking input to develop a new Strategic Plan covering 2009 – 2013. NCRR is a $1 billion-a-year research center that enables NIH-funded researchers across the country to translate basic discoveries into improved patient care. To ensure that NCRR continues to meet the needs of biomedical investigators, input on six questions which were published in the Federal Register on July 6, 2007, is requested.
Pfizer Tops Off Chesterfield Research Facility
Pfizer celebrated the topping off of its new $200 million research facility in Chesterfield, Mo., in early July of 2007. Housing laboratories, office areas, and meeting spaces, the project was designed by KlingStubbins with Gilbane-Tarlton as construction manager. The new facility, built on the axis of a vibrant existing complex, is a key milestone in a master plan over twenty years in the making. The 320,000-sf research building will consolidate the St.
University of Oklahoma Plans Cancer Institute
The University of Oklahoma will begin construction in late 2007 on the $120 million, 220,000-sf Cancer Institute at the Oklahoma Health Center (OHC) in Oklahoma City. The seven story cancer center is part of a master plan of expansion at OHC involving the addition of 4.75 million sf of space and capital projects totaling $1.48 billion. Also planned at OHC is the Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center, slated to begin construction in 2008.
Stonehill College To Break Ground on Science Center
Stonehill College will break ground on a $34 million science center in Easton, Mass., in September of 2007. Featuring a large atrium between two academic wings housing biology, biochemistry, chemistry, neuroscience, physics, psychology, and environmental studies, the 89,000-sf project will contain laboratories, classrooms, and faculty offices. The interdisciplinary project is designed to foster collaboration and interaction and is expected to open in September of 2009.
University of Pennsylvania Builds Biomedical Research Facility
The University of Pennsylvania is working with Rafael Viñoly of Rafael Viñoly Architects PC to design a $370 million biomedical research facility in Philadelphia. The project will be collocated with two buildings currently under construction, the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, slated to open in 2008, and the Roberts Proton Therapy Center, slated to open in 2009. The ten-story facility will feature translational and interdisciplinary research and will open in the summer of 2010.