Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building

The six research areas: Aging & Developmental Biology, Cardiovascular Research, Cancer Biology, Human Genetics & Molecular Pediatric Disease, Oral Biology, and Vaccine Biology - the predominant strengths of the Medical Center's renowned research program - are poised to make extraordinary advances in the years ahead. To accelerate the rate of progress being made in these areas, the Medical Center has begun recruitment of 50 additional scientists (including several of the world's foremost authorities in various fields) and erected a state-of-the-art, 225,000 square-foot research building on the Medical Center campus. By concentrating its resources on these six fields, the Medical Center will assemble a scientific powerhouse in each discipline that, with the exception of its research program in Cancer Biology, will be virtually unmatched in any other institution.

Research laboratories in the Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences feature state-of-the-art scientific equipment. The architectural signature of the new research building is the dramatic point on the west side, which houses the triangular break rooms on each floor. The purpose of these rooms is to foster interaction and the exchange of ideas among scientists in an informal, relaxed setting.

"A Celebration of Scientific Discovery" Grand Opening Festivities at the Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building and Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences Guest lecturers (left to right): Hugh A D'Andrade, vice chairman and chief administrative officer, Schering-Plough Corporation; Alejandro Zaffaroni, Ph.D. (D '49, HNR '72), founder and director emeritus, ALZA Corporation; Arthur Kornberg, M.D. (M '41, HNR '62), and recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Medicine; Paul Berg, Ph.D., 1980 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Cahill Professor of Cancer Research (emeritus), director, The Beckman Center, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine; Joseph L. Goldstein, M.D., 1985 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, professor and chairman, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School; Har Gobind Khorana, Ph.D., 1968 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Biology and Chemistry (emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.