LAB CONSTR: SCHIZOPHRENIA

描述(申请人提供)：本申请寻求200万美元的配套资金，用于建造24,980平方米的建筑。英国《金融时报》宾夕法尼亚大学(UP)校园内一栋新的生命科学实验室大楼内的湿板凳实验室空间。这个空间的费用余额将分配给生物系，由UP支付。该大学还将支付大楼其余部分的费用，总面积为56,752平方米。英国《金融时报》致力于为全大学基因组研究所(GI)提供额外的实验室空间，以及容纳实验室动植物的配套设施。新实验室空间的建造代表着生物系研究人员可用的研究设施在数量和质量上的改进，他们总共持有同行评议的奖项资金，每年的直接费用约为850万美元。这些调查人员中的许多人目前占用的空间不符合标准，将在本项目结束时退役。这座建筑代表着一个分两个阶段的过程的第一阶段，建成后将提供大约10万平方米的新面积。英国《金融时报》致力于生命科学研究和培训的空间。当这两个阶段完成后，合并后的生命科学大楼将容纳生物系大约一半的教职员工，心理学系几乎整个教职员工，以及GI和认知神经科学中心(CCN)，并将在至关重要的领域做出新的合作努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks $2 million in matching funds towards the construction of 24,980 sq. ft. of wet bench laboratory space in a new laboratory building for the life sciences on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania (UP). The balance of the cost of this space, which will be assigned to the Department of Biology, will be paid by the UP. The University will also cover the cost of the remainder of the building, which totals 56,752 sq. ft. devoted to additional laboratory space for the University-wide Genomics Institute (GI) as well as supporting facilities housing laboratory animals and plants. The construction of the new laboratory space represents both quantitative and qualitative improvements of the research facilities available to researchers in the Department of Biology, who collectively hold peer-reviewed awards funding of approximately $8.5 million in annual direct costs. The present space occupied by many of these investigators is substandard and will be retired at the conclusion of this project. This building represents the first phase of a two-stage process that, when complete, will provide approximately 100,000 new sq. ft. of space devoted to research and training in the life sciences. When both phases are finished, the combined Life Sciences Building will house about half the faculty of the Department of Biology, and nearly the entire faculty of the Department of Psychology, as well as the GI and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), and will make possible new collaborative efforts in critically important fields.