Hunter College announced late last month that it has partnered with Weill Cornell Medical College to pioneer collaborative research in the biomedical field. Hunter will receive a floor for laboratory research in the new Belfer Research Building at WCMC. Hunter College President Jennifer Raab and WCMC Dean Laurie H. Glimcher announced the agreement on October 24.<\/p>\n
“[The agreement] is a physical expression of a long-standing relationship between two institutions that will advance scientific study and train the next generation of scientists,\u201d said Raab. The president also noted that a partnership \u201cbetween a top public and a top private institution is something that rarely\u2014if ever\u2014happens.”<\/p>\n
Currently under construction on the Upper East Side, the Belfer building will be dedicated to biomedical research that \u201cwill encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations between some of New York City’s top scientists in the pursuit of the shared goal of improving human health,\u201d said Glimcher.<\/p>\n
The 16-story building, worth $650 million, is expected to open in January 2014.\u00a0 The 4th<\/sup> floor, which comprises 21,000 square feet of life sciences lab space, will give Hunter faculty easier accessibility to Weill Cornell research facilities and related services.<\/p>\n Weill Cornell leads a multi-institutional research consortium affiliated with other well-known institutions in New York City, including New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Center. Already a member of this research consortium, Hunter has made important contributions in the Clinical and Translational Science Center.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are incredibly fortunate to have this first-class space to work side-by-side with Weill Cornell,\u201d Raab said.<\/p>\n Glimcher agreed. “Weill Cornell Medical College is thrilled to have Hunter College share this facility and to have our scientists continue to collaborate on biomedical research.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hunter College announced late last month that it has partnered with Weill Cornell Medical College to pioneer collaborative research in the biomedical field. Hunter will receive a floor for laboratory research in the new Belfer Research Building at WCMC. Hunter College President Jennifer Raab and WCMC Dean Laurie H. Glimcher announced the agreement on October…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[259,279,369,1037,1117,1212,2399],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunter","category-science","tag-belfer-building","tag-biomedical-research","tag-campus-news","tag-hunter-college","tag-jennifer-raab","tag-laurie-glimcher","tag-weill-cornell-medical-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}