Yeshiva University Building $200M Research Center
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University broke ground yesterday for a new research facility in the Bronx.
The five-story, $200 million facility represents the largest medical research facility to be constructed in the Bronx since the College of Medicine opened in 1955, the school said in a statement.
“The research that will take place in the new research center will be at the frontier of biomedical science and has the potential to impact every area of medicine from cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes to genetic disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, and many others,” said Dr. Dominick P. Purpura, dean of the medical school. “We will focus on genetic medicine and use our laboratory findings to develop medical advances that will benefit residents of the Bronx, New York City and, in the long term, the entire world.”
The 201,000-square-foot facility is going up on 10 acres leased from Jacobi Medical Center, a teaching affiliate of the medical school, for 99 years.
It will be named the Harold and Muriel Block Research Pavilion. Muriel Block and her late husband, a real estate investor, donated $21 million for its construction. The facility will house the Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine, named after Mr. Price, who donated $25 million.
The research pavilion, expected to be completed by 2008, will have 40 state-of-the-art laboratories and a 100-seat auditorium. It will increase the size of Einstein’s Bronx campus from 16 acres to 26.
The College of Medicine said its Department of Genetics researchers recently helped map the human genome.