University of Oklahoma Officials Praise Bio Lab Addition
Posted on: Thursday, 8 December 2005, 21:00 CST
By Jim Killackey, The Daily Oklahoman
Dec. 8--The $38 million expansion of a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center biomedical research laboratory will help find cures for cancer and diabetes and be an economic development engine for the state's economy, supporters say.
University of Oklahoma officials and state leaders expressed those views Wednesday as they dedicated an expanded Stanton L. Young Biomedical Research Center at 975 NE 10.
Provost Dr. Joseph Ferretti said research discoveries won't exist in any "academic ivory tower," but will be used to help patients with their health problems as quickly as humanly possible.
The OU research center and its laboratories, Ferretti said, will be used by biomedical teams investigating cancer, kidney disease, diabetes and infectious diseases.
Viruses, human genetics and vision problems also will be researched.
"This also will represent significant new revenues for local communities as each added lab requires supplies and draws to our campus and state new employees with housing, food and entertainment needs," he said.
Research grants to the OU Health Sciences Center increased from $10 million in 1982 to $124 million in 2004.
OU President David L. Boren helped dedicate the 122,100 square feet of state-of-the art biomedical research laboratories and equipment.
Boren called it a building block in establishing a "world-class health center right here in our state."
The project was funded by grants from the Presbyterian Health Foundation and the University Hospitals Trust.
The building is named after Oklahoma City business and civic leader Stanton L. Young, a longtime advocate for the 300-acre medical center complex between downtown and the state Capitol.
Also Wednesday, it was announced that OU researcher John Iandolo, chairman of the OU Microbiology and Immunology Department, received a five-year, $9.98 million National Institutes of Health grant, and C.V. Rao, an OU Cancer Institute researcher, received a $5.7 million contract with the National Cancer Institute.
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