THAT OPENED ITS DOORS TODAY. and NBC5'S LIZ STRZEPA GOT TO CHECK IT OUT. <AS-LIVE INTRO: THIS LAB MAY LOOK PRETTY EMPTY RIGHT NOW BUT SOON IT'LL BE FILLED WITH RESEARCHERS STUDYING TREATMENTS AND CURES FOR EVERYTHING FROM ALZHEIMER'S TO EVEN CANCER.> IF THERE'S ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN INSIDE THIS BUILDING.... <I THINK ITS FANTASTIC! > THAT'S HOW UVM GRAD STUDENT KIERA MALONE FEELS ABOUT THE POTENTIALLY áLIFE-SAVING RESEARCH THAT SHE'LL GET TO WORK ON AT THE UVM LARNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE'S FIRESTONE MEDICAL RESEARCH BUILDING. <RESEARCH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY FOR EVERY DISEASE. IM A TYPE 1 DIABETIC MYSELF. SO I AM VERY FAMILIAR WITH RESEARCH AND AS A PATIENT AND AS A SCIENTIST I THINK I HAVE AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE AND ITS VERY NICE TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A VERY NICE FACILITY TO CONTINUE DOING RESEARCH IN AND HOPEFULLY MAKE VERY NICE ADVANCES> <NATS / CLAPPING > ON THURSDAY, A PACKED HOUSE JOINED UNIVERSITY LEADERS TO OFFICIALLY OPEN THE $45-MILLION DOLLAR BUILDING... NAMED TO HONOR DR. FREDERICK AND MRS. BOBBIE FIRESTONE, THE LEAD DONOR'S PARENTS...WHO ESCAPED NAZI AUSTRIA...MOVED TO THE U-S, AND WORKED IN MEDICINE. <AT A YOUNG AGE, DAD WOULD TAKE ME ON HOUSE CALLS AND ALWAYS TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOVED PATIENT CARE AND HOW MUCH HE LOVED TO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING, LOOKING FORWARD TO ONE'S WORK> DR. STEVE FIRESTONE... HOPES THE PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE...FEEL THAT SAME JOY HIS FATHER DID EVERY DAY... DOING IMPORTANT RESEARCH...AND POTENTIALLY MAKING MEDICAL ADVANCES RIGHT HERE IN BURLINGTON. <I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO AMPLIFY OUR IMPACT HERE AT UVM THAN TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF STUDENTS > MALONE...CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO WORK. <I'M REALLY HOPING THAT WE CAN MAKE CHANGE FOR EVERYBODY AND THOSE ESPECIALLY WHO NEED IT THE MOST
UVM Larner College of Medicine opens $45M aesculapian probe facility
Students, module volition probe cardiovascular health, encephalon health, crab and lung disease
Treatments and cures for galore diseases could beryllium connected the skyline acknowledgment to imaginable findings that could travel retired of the UVM Larner College of Medicine's caller Firestone Medical Research Building.The $45 cardinal state-of-the-art gathering opened its doors Thursday.It's dedicated to Dr. Frederick and Mrs. Bobbie Firestone, the pb donor's parents who escaped Nazi Austria, moved to the U.S., and studied medicine. "At a young age, (my dad) would instrumentality maine connected location calls and ever speech astir however overmuch helium loved diligent attraction and however overmuch helium loved to aftermath up successful the morning, looking guardant to one's work," said Dr. Steve Firestone, pb donor and UVM Larner College of Medicine alum.The gathering broke crushed successful Sept. 2020 and is presently 10% occupied. The UVM Larner College of Medicine expects the installation to scope afloat occupancy by January 2023. The Firestone Medical Research Building volition location multidisciplinary probe teams moving successful the areas of cardiovascular health, encephalon health, crab and lung disease. "Research is precise important for everybody for each disease. I americium a benignant 1 diabetic myself truthful I americium precise acquainted with probe and arsenic a diligent and arsenic a idiosyncratic I deliberation I person an absorbing position and it's precise bully to cognize that we person a precise bully installation to support doing probe successful and hopefully marque precise bully advances," said Kiera Malone, a grad pupil astatine the UVM Larner College of Medicine.The gathering has the capableness to location astir 250 faculty, students and staff. It includes 42 researcher offices and 150 laboratories.
BURLINGTON, Vt. —
Treatments and cures for galore diseases could beryllium connected the skyline acknowledgment to imaginable findings that could travel retired of the UVM Larner College of Medicine's caller Firestone Medical Research Building.
The $45 cardinal state-of-the-art gathering opened its doors Thursday.
It's dedicated to Dr. Frederick and Mrs. Bobbie Firestone, the pb donor's parents who escaped Nazi Austria, moved to the U.S., and studied medicine.
"At a young age, (my dad) would instrumentality maine connected location calls and ever speech astir however overmuch helium loved diligent attraction and however overmuch helium loved to aftermath up successful the morning, looking guardant to one's work," said Dr. Steve Firestone, pb donor and UVM Larner College of Medicine alum.
The gathering broke crushed successful Sept. 2020 and is presently 10% occupied. The UVM Larner College of Medicine expects the installation to scope afloat occupancy by January 2023.
The Firestone Medical Research Building volition location multidisciplinary probe teams moving successful the areas of cardiovascular health, encephalon health, crab and lung disease.
"Research is precise important for everybody for each disease. I americium a benignant 1 diabetic myself truthful I americium precise acquainted with probe and arsenic a diligent and arsenic a idiosyncratic I deliberation I person an absorbing position and it's precise bully to cognize that we person a precise bully installation to support doing probe successful and hopefully marque precise bully advances," said Kiera Malone, a grad pupil astatine the UVM Larner College of Medicine.
The gathering has the capableness to location astir 250 faculty, students and staff. It includes 42 researcher offices and 150 laboratories.
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