Building Updates
| September 2006 New Translational Research Building Named |
| Acknowledging the transformational impact of a $45 million gift from the Ivy Foundation, the Board of Visitors in September approved the naming of two new clinical care facilities and one research building at the Health System.
The Ivy Foundation Translational Research Building will house much-needed laboratory space for medical research at UVa. Work there will focus on efforts to accelerate the progress from lab-bench discoveries to direct improvements in patient care. |
December 2005 Ivy Foundation Gives $45 Million to Medicine at UVa: Gift includes $25 million for a new translational research building |
| The Ivy Foundation of Charlottesville has given $45 million to the University of Virginia Health System to expand laboratory space for biomedical research and to speed the translation of new discoveries into effective treatments and cures. The gift will also support new facilities for clinical research and patient care in the areas of cancer and children's health.
"The timing of the Ivy Foundation's gift could not be better," said UVa President John T. Casteen III. "As we embark on an ambitious plan to strengthen the research enterprise and to use our discoveries to address health care needs in our community and around the globe, this gift moves us dramatically closer to our goals. All who benefit from the work of our researchers and clinicians owe a debt of gratitude to the Ivy Foundation and its commitment to advacing biomedical science." The Ivy gift includes $25 million for a new translational research facility that will encourage collaboration among investigators and clinicians and house programs that convert laboratory findings into new treatments, new medicines, and new methods of prevention and early detection of disease. For more information on the impact of the Ivy Foundation gift, click here. |
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| UVa President John Casteen III joined Dean Arthur Garson Jr., M.D., M.P.H., and distinguished friends, alumni, and faculty for the groundbreaking and naming ceremony of the Carter-Harrison Research Building. With 102,000 square feet of research space devoted to vaccine therapy, immunology, infectious diseases, and cancer, the new building was named to honor two families who have been instrumental in advancing medical research at the University.
"By enabling us to expand our programs in science and biomedicine, the Carter-Harrison Research Building will address one of the University's highest priorities," said President Casteen. "We can look forward with gratitude to the lifesaving therapies that will result directly from work in this building." The Beirne B. Carter Foundation made a generous gift to support immunology studies in the new building, in which a floor and a half will be devoted to the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research, a nationally-recognized leader in immunology research. Through the Harrison Family Foundation, the children of the late Mary and David Harrison (Col. '39, Law '41) also made a generous gift toward the building's construction. |