Today, the University of Florida (UF) will break ground on the Research and Academic Center at Lake Nona. The center will extend UF’s research enterprise to the Orlando area and promote collaboration among researchers at UF and Sanford-Burnham Institute for Medical Research. Their goal is to lead fundamental medical research in cancer, diabetes and other diseases available to patients in clinical settings.
The center will also give the university a strong presence in the growing medical complex at Lake Nona, which includes the UCF College of Medicine and Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, the Nemours Children’s Hospital, the Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the M.D. Anderson Center Research Institute. The center is expected to be completed in summer 2012.
WHO:
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer
State of Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink
Florida House of Representatives Speaker Designate Dean Cannon
President of the University of Florida Dr. J. Bernard Machen
WHEN:
11:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 5
WHERE:
Immediately west of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute at Lake Nona, 6400 Sanger Road in Orlando.
