LAB CONSTR: SCHIZOPHRENIA

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求200万美元的配套资金，用于建设24，980平方米。英尺在宾夕法尼亚大学（UP）校园内的一座新的生命科学实验室大楼中，该空间的费用余额，将分配给生物系，将由UP支付。大学还将支付大楼其余部分的费用，总面积为56 752平方米。英尺致力于为全校基因组学研究所（GI）提供额外的实验室空间，并为实验室动物和植物提供配套设施。新实验室空间的建设代表了生物学系研究人员可用的研究设施的定量和定性改进，这些研究人员共同拥有约850万美元的年度直接费用的同行评审奖励资金。许多调查员目前占用的空间不合标准，将在本项目结束后予以停用。该建筑是两阶段过程的第一阶段，完成后将提供约100，000平方米的新空间。英尺专门用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学系约一半的教师，心理学系几乎全部教师，以及GI和认知神经科学中心（CCN），并将在至关重要的领域进行新的合作努力。

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.