Space Renovations, Activation, and Commissioning

科学主任办公室(OSD)在2012财年发起了一项多年倡议，以巩固NICHD内部研究部(DIR)高度分散的研究计划。DIR的70多个不同的实验室和研究中心分布在7栋建筑中，事实证明，这是在基础和临床研究小组中创造当代生物医学研究环境所需的那种跨学科和基于团队的研究环境的障碍。通过国家卫生研究院和国家排雷中心领导层委托的蓝丝带小组提出的建议，该小组于2013年夏天向国土安全部汇报工作，支持国土安全部努力巩固空间。因此，通过与研究设施办公室(ORF)、国家卫生研究院领导层以及DIR的行政和科学工作人员仔细规划，制定了一项计划，并拨出资金，以便陆续迁往数量较少的建筑群。所有行动预计将在21财年完成。 对具有共同智力和科学兴趣的实验室进行了重组，并将设在马里兰州贝塞斯达的NIH园区的六个建筑群中。空间和设施规划负责人已与调查人员协商，以优化研究空间并实现必要的翻新，以使我们的研究实验室现代化。研究中心的所在地以及共享资源和昂贵设备的机会是关键因素，包括与其他NIH研究所共享，这符合NIH校内研究计划的长期规划结果。 在整合空间和重新安置调查人员的其他刺激因素中，还有计划拆除ORF计划拆除的两个老化设施，18/32号和9号楼。这些建筑已经被拆除好几年了。 所有这些情况都与2013年夏季以来实现的新战略规划和组织结构调整相结合，并于2015年10月1日批准生效。新的实验室群组将由一名协理科学主任领导，负责科学专门知识的每个职能领域，负责监督其综合实验室和调查人员组的空间和设施需求以及资源管理。 最初的空间移动始于2012财年，新的波特神经科学综合体二期，将在那里容纳细胞和结构生物学和神经科学实验室的核心小组，以及成像核心。2012财年，物理生物学计划中的一些实验室也开始设计，以待解决的问题。2013财年，细胞生物学和新陈代谢计划、分子医学计划以及发育神经科学计划中的一些实验室也开始设计。2014财年，前一年设计的项目开始建设。在2015财年，在细胞调节和代谢计划和物理生物学计划中的一些实验室的设计工作中，以前的项目已经开始移动。21财年将是这些实验室以及发育内分泌学计划中的实验室的最终建设和搬迁。仍然会有翻新和可能的搬迁，但不会像这次努力那样大。 拥有共同研究兴趣的科学家组成的亲和力团体(AG)将补充实验室的物理邻近。这些设施将使AGs能够促进科学交流、合作，并组建新的多学科团队，以流动和动态的方式处理新的研究想法。

The Office of the Scientific Director (OSD) launched a multi-year initiative in FY12 to consolidate the highly dispersed research programs of the Division of Intramural Research (DIR), NICHD. Over 70 distinct laboratories and research cores in the DIR were distributed across seven buildings, which proved to be a barrier to creating the kind of interdisciplinary and team-based research environment, both in basic and clinical research groups, that is needed in a contemporary biomedical research setting. Through the recommendations of a Blue Ribbon Panel, commissioned by the NIH and NICHD leadership, which reported to the DIR in summer 2013, the DIR was supported in its efforts to consolidate space. As a result, and through careful planning with the Office of Research Facilities (ORF), NIH leadership, and administrative and scientific staff of the DIR, a plan was developed and funds were set aside to move, in succession, to a smaller number of building clusters. Completion of all moves is projected for FY21. Laboratories with common intellectual and scientific interests were reorganized and will be co-located in six building clusters on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Space and facilities planning leaders have consulted with investigators to optimize research space and achieve renovations necessary to modernize our research laboratories. The co-location of research cores and the opportunity to share resources and costly equipment were critical factors, including sharing with other NIH institutes, which is in accordance with outcomes of NIH long-term planning for the Intramural Research Program. Among the other stimuli for the consolidation of space and relocation of investigators are the planned demolition of two aging facilities that are slated for demolition by ORF, buildings 18/32 and 9. These buildings have been slated for demolition for several years. All of these circumstances have combined with the new strategic plan and organizational restructuring achieved since summer 2013, and approved to go into effect in on October 1, 2015. New laboratory clusters will be led by an Associate Scientific Director (ASD) for each functional area of scientific expertise, who will oversee space and facility needs and resource management for their group of integrated laboratories and investigative staff. The initial space moves began in FY12 with the new Porter Neurosciences Complex, phase II, where a core group of cell and structural biology and neurosciences labs, along with imaging cores, will be housed. Designs also began in FY12 for some of the labs in the Program in Physical Biology for pending moves to Bldg. 10. In FY13, design began for the Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Molecular Medicine Program, and some of the labs in the Program in Developmental Neuroscience. In FY14, construction began for the programs designed the previous year. In FY15, moves have begun for the previous programs while design for some of the labs in the Program in Cellular Regulation and Metabolism and Program in Physical Biology. FY21 will be the final construction and moves for these labs as well as the labs within the Program in Developmental Endocrinology. There will still be renovations and possible moves but not as large as this effort has been. Complementing the physical proximity of laboratories will be affinity groups (AG) of scientists with shared research interests. The facilities will allow for AGs to promote scientific exchange, collaborations, and the formation of new multidisciplinary teams to address new research ideas in a fluid and dynamic manner.