Renovation of Research Facilities: Basic Science InitiativePhase II

学术研究基础设施计划的资金将用于支持恢复约翰霍普金斯大学医学院四个基础科学系的研究实验室、共享设施和基本基础设施。该大学采取了一项多阶段倡议，使专门用于基础科学的设施现代化。该项目将支持五栋楼建筑群中三栋楼的二期翻修：建于1961年的伍兹基础科学大楼、建于1929年的生理学大楼和建于1959年的生物物理学大楼。这三栋建筑都有许多不足之处，比如基础设施陈旧，特别是空气处理、电力和管道系统，以及不符合标准和破旧的实验室和共享设施。现有的研究空间条件已经影响了研究项目，包括但不限于：计算生物学、细胞信号、细胞分裂控制、代谢调节、线粒体酶的生物能量学、膜转运体、泵和通道的研究、发育神经生物学、视觉的分子机制和蛋白质结构的分子生物物理学。建成后，19个实验室和8个共享设施将实现现代化，符合卫生和安全法规。改善的设施将使这些部门能够启动新的跨学科项目，留住和招聘最高质量的教职员工和学生，并将最高质量的研究保持到下一个十年。

Funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program will be used to support the restoration of research laboratories, shared facilities, and basic infrastructure for four basic science departments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The University has undertaken a multi-phased initiative for modernizing facilities dedicated to the basic sciences. This project will support Phase II renovations within three buildings of a five building complex: the Woods Basic Science building constructed in 1961, the Physiology building constructed in 1929, and the Biophysics building constructed in 1959. The three buildings share many deficiencies such as outdated infrastructure, particularly air handling, electrical and plumbing systems, and substandard and dilapidated laboratory and shared facilities. Existing conditions of research space has affected research programs including, but not limited to: computational biology, cell signaling, control of cell division, regulation of metabolism, bio-energetics of mitochondrial enzymes, studies of membrane transporters, pumps and channels, developmental neurobiology, molecular mechanisms of visions, and molecular biophysics of protein structure. Upon completion, 19 laboratories and eight shared facilities will be modernized, complying with health and safety codes. Improved facilities will allow the Departments to initiate new interdisciplinary programs, retain and recruit the highest quality faculty and students, and sustain the highest quality of research into the next decade.