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State and Local Tech-based ED RoundUp
Albany, New York
Health Reseach Inc., a branch of the New York State Department of Health, is looking to move its Pharmacogenomics Institute to a vacant laboratory in Rensselaer Technology Park, according to a recent article published in the Times Union. The 25,000-square-foot building that housed the Virogenics Corp., a vaccine-research company that left in 2000, has not been officially purchased. The state expects to lease the site when the Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency closes on the purchase.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced the creation of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, established through a gift from Jaishree Deshpande and Desh Deshpande. Their $20 million gift will set off the initial phase of the center, which will be a part of MIT's School of Engineering. The center will will be dedicated to supporting research on novel technologies in collaboration with the high technology and venture capitalist communities of New England and will support undergraduate education in engineering practice. A press release on the center is available at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/deshpande.html
Morgantown, West Virginia
The Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute at West Virginia University recently announced a $15 million gift from the Rockefeller family to expand its neurosciences research and neurological therapeutics development programs. The gift, which was given by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and numerous family members, will comprise the founding endowment for the Institute, which was established in 1999 as the world's first major research institute focusing on human memory. The purpose of the Institute's research is to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure neurological, psychiatric, and other cognitive disorders affecting the human brain, with an emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. The Institute is named after the senator's mother, who died of complications from Alzheimer's in 1992.