Biological Structure Research Facility Renovation

描述(由申请人提供)： 华盛顿大学医学院要求为翻修提供资金，以改善20,419平方英尺的多学科研究空间，用于NIH资助的生物结构系神经生物学、发育生物学、视觉科学、分子结构和结构信息学项目。此次翻新将把干湿实验室的研究空间从10453平方英尺增加近55%。至16,132平方英尺。通过重组和搬迁办公空间，外加分配额外的2 859平方米。英国《金融时报》H翼的研究空间给了部门。医学院对生物结构系的承诺包括七个新的常规教员职位。此次翻修预计将加强当前项目之间的互动，方法是让合作的科学家进入连续的空间，并整合通用设备，这些设备在某些情况下距离使用它的研究人员有几层楼之遥。翻修将通过提供现代研究空间和不同实验室科学家之间非正式讨论的共同区域，鼓励新的研究合作。开放的实验室设计将鼓励和促进从分子到人类结构层面的创新多学科方法，因为生物结构部门扩大了与整个健康科学和医学院的部门、项目和中心的研究合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Washington School of Medicine requests funding for renovations to improve 20,419 square feet of multidisciplinary research space for NIH funded programs in Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, Vision Sciences, Molecular Structure and Structural Informatics in the Department of Biological Structure. The renovation will increase the wet and dry laboratory research space by nearly 55%, from 10,453 sq.ft. to 16,132 sq.ft. through the reorganization and relocation of office space, plus the assignment of an additional 2,859 sq. ft. of research space in the H-wing to the Department. The commitment to the Department of Biological Structure from the School of Medicine includes seven new regular faculty positions. The renovation is expected to enhance interactions between current programs by bringing collaborating scientists into contiguous space and consolidating common equipment that, in some cases, is located several floors away from the researchers who use it. The renovation will encourage new research collaboration by providing modern research space and common areas for informal discussion between scientists from different laboratories. The open laboratory design will encourage and facilitate innovative multidisciplinary approaches from the molecular to human levels of structure as the Department of Biological Structure expands research collaborations with departments, programs and centers throughout the Health Sciences and School of Medicine.