Extramural Research Facilities Construction Breast & Wo*

描述（由申请人提供）： 拟议中的乳腺和妇女癌症实验室（BWCL）是一个净平方英尺12，435的设施，专门用于加州大学欧文分校（UCI）医学院的基础和转化研究。拟议的建设将完成斯普拉格大厅较低层的外壳空间，以容纳一个核心小组的妇女癌症研究人员与强大的合作关系，以更大的努力在妇女癌症。尽管有一个积极的建设计划，教师招聘和增加PHS资金已经超过了实验室空间的可用性。自1998年以来，医学院共招聘了24名教授和34名研究人员，分别增长了16%和100%。生物科学学院也经历了类似的增长，增加了23名教授或33%的教师。 拟议的项目将扩大校园建设，以帮助适应生物医学研究活动的快速增长，特别是在乳腺癌和妇女癌症。BWCL将容纳七名研究人员及其合作者的实验室。实验室空间还将作为一组二级用户的资源，定义为合作和共享激光光学实验室等设施的研究人员。拟议的设施将提高现有共享资源的效率，如暗室、玻璃清洗、办公室、大型会议室和楼上的休息室，并通过隧道方便地进入现有的吉莱斯皮动物园，包括一个新的转基因啮齿动物设施，该设施正在根据单独的NCRR赠款建造。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Breast and Women's Cancer Laboratory (BWCL) is a 12,435 net square foot facility devoted to basic and translational research at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), College of Medicine. The proposed construction would complete shell space in the lower level of Sprague Hall to house a core group of women's cancer researchers with strong collaborative ties to a larger effort in women's cancer. Despite an aggressive building program, faculty recruitment and increased PHS funding have outpaced the availability of laboratory space. Since 1998, the College of Medicine has recruited 24 professors and 34 researchers, an increase of 16% and 100% respectively. The School of Biological Science has experienced comparable growth, adding 23 professors or 33% to its faculty. The proposed project would augment campus construction to help accommodate this rapid growth in biomedical research activity, specifically in breast and women's cancer. The BWCL would house the laboratories of seven investigators and their collaborators. The laboratory space also would serve as a resource for a group of secondary users, defined as researchers collaborating and sharing facilities such as the Laser Optics Lab. The proposed facility would gain efficiencies from existing shared resources such as darkroom, glasswash, offices, large conference and break rooms in the upper floors, and have excellent access by tunnel to the existing Gillespie Vivarium, including a new Genetically Modified Rodent Facility, being constructed under a separate NCRR grant.