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Can We Get a Gold in Green?
Final Part of Bldg. 35, ‘Porter II’ Nears Groundbreaking |
| By Carla Garnett |
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Construction is nearly set to begin on Porter II. |
Construction is nearly set to begin on the second phase of NIH’s on-campus neuroscience facility, the Porter Neuroscience Research Center. PNRC II, construction
of which was made possible
by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds NIH received in 2009, is currently
in a site-preparation phase that includes awarding of various building contracts. Groundbreaking
could begin as soon as late summer or early fall this year.
Initially, Porter II was going to cost about $266 million of the total $500 million in ARRA funds that NIH was allotted for buildings and facilities. Several months ago, however, NIH received word that construction bids were coming in significantly lower than previously estimated.
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Harvard’s Daley Updates NIH on iPS Cells |
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There are probably only a handful of scientists whose visit to campus in the arid offseason of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series, which normally takes July and August off, could draw a crowd. Harvard stem cell research authority Dr. George Q. Daley is one of them.
The WALS folks dreamed up a midsummer, Monday afternoon version of the lecture on July 26 and, by 3 p.m., Masur Auditorium was packed with curious summer interns and a modest legion of tenured investigators who were either back from, or had not yet gone on, vacation.
Daley, a professor of hematology and director
of the stem cell transplantation program at Children’s Hospital Boston, did not disappoint. His résumé alone pointed to a man who could speak authoritatively about the future of 21st century medicine: summa cum laude graduate of Harvard Medical School (only the 12th person
to win that honor, in 1991), graduate work with Nobel laureate Dr. David Baltimore, HHMI investigator, member of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Awards inaugural class in 2004, A-list quote supplier when stem cells are a topic in any major newspaper, among many other honors.
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