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expansion to the Westside of Los Angeles, while
continuing its nearly 100-year history of serving
Angelenos at its downtown campus with worldclass
orthopaedic care.”
Combined, the 230,000-square-foot
buildings will house more than 450
scientists and staff from UCLA’s
College of Letters and Science,
David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital. By uniting
experts engaged in a wide spectrum of studies,
the university and Orthopædic Hospital hope to
foster biomedical discoveries that will result in a
dramatic shift in medical treatments for a variety
of diseases, including bone disorders, cancer, diabetes
and AIDS.
Architects designed the building with common
open laboratories that are shared among
departments, a new concept for UCLA and
Orthopædic Hospital. Roughly 12 to 14 groups of
scientists will share four labs on each floor, which
will create a synergistic effect on their research.
The unique structure, seamlessly joined by an
open circular staircase, allows access across floors
throughout both buildings, and will encourage
joint investigations and crossover discoveries
among faculty who would not ordinarily collaborate.
The combined buildings will include the
Orthopædic Hospital Research Center, the UCLA
AIDS Institute and the Eli and Edythe Broad
Mary Schmitz, PhD leads visitors on a tour of the
lobby of the Orthopædic Hospital Research Center.
research
“Researchers at this new facility will strive to
find cures and better treatments for the world’s
most devastating diseases. This research complex
represents the future of medical advancement
and progress and it reinforces UCLA’s status as
a premier institution of biomedical research.”
— Gerald S. Levey, MD
UCLA Vice Chancellor for Medical
Sciences and Dean of the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA
“The dedication of these facilities affords the
UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital Department
of Orthopaedic Surgery a unique opportunity to
expand its research efforts. The recruitment of
Dr. John Adams to become our vice chairman
for orthopaedic research will foster the gathering
of a team of musculoskeletal researchers from
disciplines within UCLA and other institutions.
The research program will extend from basic
molecular biology of the musculoskeletal system
to translational collaborative programs to bring
this information into our clinical treatment
programs. The research laboratories will
enhance our mission of physician education and
provision of clinical care to our patients.”
— Gerald Finerman, MD
Chair of the UCLA and Orthopædic Hospital
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a
Dorothy and Leonard Strauss Scholar at UCLA
“As a clinician-scientist, I have dedicated my
career to advancing our understanding of the
molecular underpinnings as well as the diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of diseases that put the
human skeleton at increased risk for fracture. As
director of the newly created Orthopædic Hospital
Research Center, I am in the position to realize a
long-standing dream, to create multidisciplinary
teams of scientists — including experts in
molecular and stem cell biology, biomedical
engineering, and materials science — and
clinicians to develop novel means of regenerating
bone and joint tissue in adults and children.”
— John S. Adams, MD
Vice Chair for Research, UCLA and Orthopædic
Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
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