LAB CONSTR: SCHIZOPHRENIA

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求拨款200万元，以配合兴建24,980平方呎的楼宇。在宾夕法尼亚大学（UP）校园的一个新的生命科学实验室大楼里，有1英尺的湿台式实验室空间。该空间费用的余额将分配给生物系，将由UP支付。大学还将支付建筑其余部分的费用，总计56,752平方米。为大学基因组学研究所（GI）提供额外的实验室空间，并为实验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系研究人员可用的研究设施在数量和质量上的改进，这些研究人员共同持有同行评审奖，每年的直接费用约为850万美元。目前许多调查员所占用的空间不符合标准，将在本项目结束时退休。该建筑代表了一个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。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大约一半的生物系教师，几乎所有的心理学系教师，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.