Renovation of Research Facilities: Basic Science InitiativePhase II

来自学术研究基础设施计划的资金将用于支持约翰霍普金斯大学医学院四个基础科学系的研究实验室、共享设施和基础设施的恢复。该大学采取了一项多阶段的举措，使专门用于基础科学的设施现代化。该项目将支持五栋建筑综合体中三栋建筑的二期翻新：1961年建造的伍兹基础科学大楼，1929年建造的生理学大楼和1959年建造的生物物理学大楼。这三座大楼都有许多不足之处，例如基础设施过时，特别是空气处理、电气和管道系统，以及不合格和破旧的实验室和共用设施。研究空间的现有条件影响了研究项目，包括但不限于：计算生物学、细胞信号传导、细胞分裂控制、代谢调节、线粒体酶的生物能量学、膜转运体、泵和通道的研究、发育神经生物学、视觉的分子机制和蛋白质结构的分子生物物理学。建成后，19个实验室和8个共用设施将按照健康和安全规范进行现代化改造。改善的设施将使各系能够开展新的跨学科项目，保留和招募最优秀的教师和学生，并在未来十年保持最高质量的研究。

Funds from the Academic Research Infrastructure Program will be used to support the restoration of research laboratories, shared facilities, and basic infrastructure for four basic science departments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The University has undertaken a multi-phased initiative for modernizing facilities dedicated to the basic sciences. This project will support Phase II renovations within three buildings of a five building complex: the Woods Basic Science building constructed in 1961, the Physiology building constructed in 1929, and the Biophysics building constructed in 1959. The three buildings share many deficiencies such as outdated infrastructure, particularly air handling, electrical and plumbing systems, and substandard and dilapidated laboratory and shared facilities. Existing conditions of research space has affected research programs including, but not limited to: computational biology, cell signaling, control of cell division, regulation of metabolism, bio-energetics of mitochondrial enzymes, studies of membrane transporters, pumps and channels, developmental neurobiology, molecular mechanisms of visions, and molecular biophysics of protein structure. Upon completion, 19 laboratories and eight shared facilities will be modernized, complying with health and safety codes. Improved facilities will allow the Departments to initiate new interdisciplinary programs, retain and recruit the highest quality faculty and students, and sustain the highest quality of research into the next decade.