GLAUCOMA AND CATARACT RESEARCH LABORATORIES

青光眼和白内障研究实验室

• 批准号: 6039183
• 负责人: GILBERT S OMENN
• 金额: $ 85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 2002-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6039183
• 关键词: biomedical facility; building /facility design /renovation; cataract; glaucoma

The Kellogg Eye Center at the University of Michigan was build in 1985. During the past 14 years the research faculty in the D4epartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences has doubled. We maintain a strong reputation as a leading research center that has accomplish4ed many of the NIH goals enumerated in Vision Research-A National Plan. Our NEI dollar award national ranking has moved from 17th to 4th place among ophthalmology departments. Much of this we owe to the environment offered by the new Eye Center. We have been particularly productive in molecular mechanisms research and the genetic research related to degenerative disorders of the retina, glaucoma, and cataracts, as well as performing clinical trials in these fields. Our successes have allowed us to attract outstanding senior and junior scientists to our faculty, and to pursue major new initiatives related to the molecular genetic basis of glaucoma and cataract, which are high priorities of the National Plan. Since the original building design could not have forecast the specific laboratory needs for our current research we are preparing to renovated the entire second floor of the Kellogg Eye Center to convert clinical space into three laboratories and an associated shared equipment area comprising a cold room, tissue culture room, and research conference room for glaucoma and cataract research. The proposed renovations on the second floor will provide laboratories for two new investigators, as well as free up some of the space needed to relieve crowding in our fifth floor research programs in molecular genetics, retinal degenerations and gene therapy.

密歇根大学的凯洛格眼科中心建于1985年。在过去的14年中，眼科和视觉科学的研究人员增加了一倍。我们作为一个领先的研究中心保持着良好的声誉，已经实现了视觉研究国家计划中列举的许多NIH目标。我们的NEI美元奖全国排名已从第17位上升到第4位眼科部门。这在很大程度上归功于新眼科中心提供的环境。我们在分子机制研究和与视网膜、青光眼和白内障的退行性疾病相关的遗传研究以及在这些领域进行临床试验方面特别富有成效。我们的成功使我们能够吸引优秀的高级和初级科学家到我们的教师，并追求与青光眼和白内障，这是国家计划的高度优先事项的分子遗传基础的重大新举措。由于最初的建筑设计无法预测我们当前研究的特定实验室需求，我们正准备翻新凯洛格眼科中心的整个二楼，将临床空间转换为三个实验室和相关的共享设备区，包括冷藏室，组织培养室和青光眼和白内障研究的研究会议室。二楼的拟议改造将为两名新研究人员提供实验室，并释放一些空间，以缓解我们五楼分子遗传学，视网膜变性和基因治疗研究项目的拥挤。