UF opens Clinical and Translational Research Building on campus
August 9, 2013
WHAT:
University of Florida leaders will celebrate the opening of the Clinical and Translational Research Building with a ribbon-cutting and refreshments. The $45 million, 120,000-square-foot complex is designed to spark collaboration and medical advances by bringing together research teams from various scientific disciplines.
The new building is home to the UF Institute on Aging, or IOA, and the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, or CTSI.
- The UF IOA’s major centers and programs are the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, the Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research Program and the Biology of Aging basic science research program. The UF Health Senior Care practice provides consultative, preventive and primary care for older adults.
- The UF CTSI aims to speed scientific discoveries to patients and serves as a hub for UF’s large research network, connecting UF’s 16 colleges, the UF Health academic health center, the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System and collaborators across the state and nation.
WHO:
- UF President Bernie Machen
- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.)
- Dr. David S. Guzick, senior vice president for health affairs and president of UF Health
- Dr. Marco Pahor, director of the UF Institute on Aging
- Dr. David R. Nelson, director of the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute
WHEN:
2-3:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12. UF Health leadership will be available for news media interviews at 1:40 p.m.
Media also will be able to take a guided tour of the building immediately following the event.
WHERE:
2004 Mowry Road, Gainesville, Fla. (On the northeast corner of Mowry Road and Gale Lemerand Drive.)
CONTACT: R.S.V.P. to Rossana Passaniti at 352-273-8569 or email passar@shands.ufl.edu.