See it on the right up there?
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Well, not really.
But read all about the craziest new building in California after the jump.
Posts Tagged ‘research’
Our Crazy New CIRM-Worm Building Seems to be Fitting In Nicely up at UCSF Parnassus
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011Finally: Some Good Photos of the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine CIRM WORM Building at UCSF
Thursday, April 14th, 2011Now I took some shots of the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine CIRM WORM Building at UCSF over Turkey Day weekend last year as I was coming down the hill, but, at long last, let’s see some good photos from Rafael Viñoly Architects.
That’s what it looks like.
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For the record….
UCSF’s CIRM Worm Building Officially Opens Today – Read All About it from Critic John King
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011You know what I think? I think that it’s easier to teach a newspaper writer how to take photos than it is to teach a newspaper photographer how to write. So if you had to choose and you could only afford to send one person, you’d give a camera and send the writer, right?
That’s something to think about when you look at John King’s bits at SFGate. He does a fine job with photography on his own. Maybe even better?
Just saying.
Here’s a retread from last year. I think the new Mayor will be on the scene today to kick things off.
What’s the Next Big Thing in stem cell research? It’s got to be UCSF‘s shiny, brand-spanking-new, 700-foot-long Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research (CIRM) building from New Yawk-based Rafael Vinoly Architects.
Check it:
“The $123 million building is a series of split-level floors with terraced grass roofs and solar orientation. Open labs flow into each other, with office/interaction areas located on the circulation route between the labs, allowing for the entire research community in the building to interact.”
It’s the CIRM Worm! See?
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It was the Modern Steel Construction Magazine cover girl earlier this year, or something, so that’s something to crow about.
As planned:
But this low-rise monster, in real life, somehow looks like:
An RV;
A boat;
A millipede; and
A Jawa Sandcrawler
And all at the same time.
Researchers have already moved in so let’s take a look why not.
Here’s the view coming up Medical Center Drive. This thing looks as if it will spring to life at any moment and start marching towards Parnassus, or Irving, to swallow a an N Judah or two:
This is how you build in Earthquake Country:
This is all the way up the hill where Med Center takes a hairpin. Kind of looks like an RV. Anterior Region in Lateral View:
Looking down the hill:
The clitellum:
And here, it sort of looks like a boat. See how it’s moored to Mount Sutro? (And hey, UCSF. Did you leave all the lights on for the entire four-day Thanksgiving weekend? O.K. fine.)
And here’s the gap betwixt floors:
Look through and you can see the ocean! (Or the bay, or the Golden Gate, or the estuary, whatever…)
Here’s the view from the roof, more or less, with a nice view of The Richmond and our Golden Gate Bridge
And here’s what we were promised, up on the roof:
And here’s what we got, it’s like weeds and International Orange chairs:
Maybe they’re still working on the vegetation.
And speaking of orange chairs, the theme continues inside:
Now, don’t fret about them concomitant radioactive materials up near the top…
…cause they have a nice outdoor shower to wash ‘em all away, Silkwood-style:
Leave us now depart the CIRM Worm:
Bon Courage, CIRM people!
They had a big party for the groundbreaking with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a couple years back, so maybe they’ll have another shindig for the official kickoff?
Read all about it or take a look at the video from back in the day.
2008 saw Arnold’s first visit ever to UCSF, so Chancellor J. Michael Bishop gave him the business about it.
The stars of the show were Arnie and Mr. Eli Broad
Was that a gold fleur-de-lys ring? Something like that.
Anyway, y’all come back.
All the deets:
“The building, which will be located on the Parnassus Campus, will house 25 principal investigators and their teams at full capacity. It will be the headquarters of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, which will continue to include scientists across all UCSF campuses. The relocation of scientists into the building will free up space in existing laboratories/offices that will allow for additional recruitments. UCSF has recruited 16 new faculty members to the Center in the last three years. The building will be located near UCSF Medical Center, which will support the long-term goal of translating basic research findings to clinical trials.
Groundbreaking for the building, which has more than 46,000 assignable square feet and has four split-level floors, occurred in late August 2008, with completion of the project in late-2010.”
Design-Build Team:
General Contractor
DPR Construction, Inc., San Francisco
Fabricator and Erector
Schuff Steel – Pacific Division, Oakland/San Diego, Calif. (AISC Member)
Architect
SmithGroup, San Francisco
Structural Engineer
Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc., San Francisco
Preliminary Design Team:
Architect
Rafael Viñoly Architects, New York
Structural Engineer
Nabih Youssef Associates, San Francisco
Earn $40 Per Hour at Stanford’s Study For Mom’s Who Have Had Depression And Who Have a Daughter Aged 10-14
Thursday, December 16th, 2010This deal is kind of a rip-off because you and your kin have to visit Stanfoo three times and you might only get $80 for the both of you.
Seems as if MUNI might make more money on this affair than the participants.
(Maybe if they actually paid the moms/daughters a fair amount for their time, it would warp the study or something.)
Oh well.
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“Moms and Daughters Wanted for Paid fMRI Brain Scan Research at Stanford
Are you a mother with a daughter who is 10-14 years old? Have you had episodes of depression during adulthood?
If so, you may be eligible to participate in a study of how moms and their children think and process emotional information. The study takes place in the Psychology Department at Stanford University. You and your daughter would participate in interviews, fill out questionnaires, and have a scan taken of your daughter’s brain.
Eligible mother-child pairs will receive $40/hour for their time. The study would last from 2-6 hours over the course of two or three visits. We will schedule the sessions around your availability (daytime, evenings, or weekends are all fine).
To be eligible for this study:
** you must have a daughter between the ages of 10-14
** you must be a US citizen or non-citizen with a Green Card
** you must read and speak English
** you should have no immediate plans to leave the Bay Area
If you would like to receive more information about this study, please email mood@psych.stanford.edu or call (650) 723-0804 to reach the study coordinator, Hannah Burley. Please refer to study #287. For general information about participant rights, contact 1-866-680-2906. Thank you.
UCSF’s Stem Cell Center is Open – It’s the Craziest Building in Town – A 700-Foot Millipede Coming Down Mt. Sutro
Monday, November 29th, 2010What’s the Next Big Thing in stem cell research? It’s got to be UCSF‘s shiny, brand-spanking-new, 700-foot-long Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research (CIRM) building from New Yawk-based Rafael Vinoly Architects.
Check it:
“The $123 million building is a series of split-level floors with terraced grass roofs and solar orientation. Open labs flow into each other, with office/interaction areas located on the circulation route between the labs, allowing for the entire research community in the building to interact.”
It’s the CIRM Worm! See?
Click to expand
It was the Modern Steel Construction Magazine cover girl earlier this year, or something, so that’s something to crow about.
As planned:
But this low-rise monster, in real life, somehow looks like:
An RV;
A boat;
A millipede; and
A Jawa Sandcrawler
And all at the same time.
Researchers have already moved in so let’s take a look why not.
Here’s the view coming up Medical Center Drive. This thing looks as if it will spring to life at any moment and start marching towards Parnassus, or Irving, to swallow a an N Judah or two:
This is how you build in Earthquake Country:
This is all the way up the hill where Med Center takes a hairpin. Kind of looks like an RV. Anterior Region in Lateral View:
Looking down the hill:
The clitellum:
And here, it sort of looks like a boat. See how it’s moored to Mount Sutro? (And hey, UCSF. Did you leave all the lights on for the entire four-day Thanksgiving weekend? O.K. fine.)
And here’s the gap betwixt floors:
Look through and you can see the ocean! (Or the bay, or the Golden Gate, or the estuary, whatever…)
Here’s the view from the roof, more or less, with a nice view of The Richmond and our Golden Gate Bridge
And here’s what we were promised, up on the roof:
And here’s what we got, it’s like weeds and International Orange chairs:
Maybe they’re still working on the vegetation.
And speaking of orange chairs, the theme continues inside:
Now, don’t fret about them concomitant radioactive materials up near the top…
…cause they have a nice outdoor shower to wash ‘em all away, Silkwood-style:
Leave us now depart the CIRM Worm:
Bon Courage, CIRM people!
They had a big party for the groundbreaking with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger a couple years back, so maybe they’ll have another shindig for the official kickoff?
Read all about it or take a look at the video from back in the day.
2008 saw Arnold’s first visit ever to UCSF, so Chancellor J. Michael Bishop gave him the business about it.
The stars of the show were Arnie and Mr. Eli Broad
Was that a gold fleur-de-lys ring? Something like that.
Anyway, y’all come back.
All the deets:
“The building, which will be located on the Parnassus Campus, will house 25 principal investigators and their teams at full capacity. It will be the headquarters of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, which will continue to include scientists across all UCSF campuses. The relocation of scientists into the building will free up space in existing laboratories/offices that will allow for additional recruitments. UCSF has recruited 16 new faculty members to the Center in the last three years. The building will be located near UCSF Medical Center, which will support the long-term goal of translating basic research findings to clinical trials.
Groundbreaking for the building, which has more than 46,000 assignable square feet and has four split-level floors, occurred in late August 2008, with completion of the project in late-2010.”
Design-Build Team:
General Contractor
DPR Construction, Inc., San Francisco
Fabricator and Erector
Schuff Steel – Pacific Division, Oakland/San Diego, Calif. (AISC Member)
Architect
SmithGroup, San Francisco
Structural Engineer
Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc., San Francisco
Preliminary Design Team:
Architect
Rafael Viñoly Architects, New York
Structural Engineer
Nabih Youssef Associates, San Francisco
UC Regents Approve UCSF Mission Bay Med Center – Helipad-Equipped Hospital Coming in 2014
Friday, September 17th, 2010Oh it’s on. The fundraising campaign to get the Medical Center at Mission Bay off the ground is going well enough, so the University of California Board of Regents just gave the go-ahead for the project. The next step will be the groundbreaking ceremony.
(And oh, what’s the LEED rating? It’s Gold, baby. And oh, we’ve got choppers - a helipad is baked into the cake. Moving on…)
Putting cancer /women’s / children’s medicine in Mission Bay will free-up UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus Heights to do other things. It will:
“…transition into focusing on high-end adult surgical and medical services, including emergency medicine.”
(So you Inner Sunset / Cole Valley NIMBYs now have been warned. Let’s hope the increase in wailing sirens won’t disturb your lives too much…)
Anyway, turn up your speakers waaaaay loud (you’ll soon discover why) to see this short video from UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and UCSF Medical Center CEO Mark Laret, if you want.
And here’s the Mission Bay renderporn. Radar O’Reilly can already hear the choppers:
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Here’s what the 183-bed UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital might look like. For the record, the naming rights went for $100,000,000:
You can see it on the right here:
All the deets:
The University of California Board of Regents today unanimously approved funding plans for the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. The board’s action is the final endorsement for the project, clearing the way for UCSF to break ground on a world-class hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients in the Mission Bay neighborhood, south of downtown San Francisco.
“The Regents’ approval is a major milestone for UCSF and for our family of supporters throughout the community,” said UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann. “It is hard to overstate the importance of the new medical center at Mission Bay, which will reinforce UCSF and the entire Bay Area as a hub of innovation, biotechnology and premier health care.”
After nearly a decade of planning, site preparations are underway on the 14.5-acre parcel of land. Construction of the 878,000-gross-square-foot hospital complex will begin on schedule in December 2010, shortly after required state permits are expected to be issued. Upon completion in 2014, the 289-bed facility will set a new standard for patient- and family-centered health care, safety, sustainability and translational medicine.
“Ten years ago, the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay was a dream, but we are now ready to break ground and bring this vision to reality,” said Mark R. Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. “The greatest legacy of the Regents’ decision to approve this new medical center will be the thousands of patient lives that are saved or improved because of the cutting-edge medical care that will be provided in these facilities.”
Ever more deets, after the jump
Jerry Brown Throws Down: UCLA Prof’s Phony Bologna L.B. Research and Education Foundation
Friday, December 4th, 2009California Attorney General Jerry Brown can’t abide charity-related monkeyshines. So if use your charity as a personal bank account to finance your research and business ventures, maybe like UCLA Professor Gerald D. Buckberg, M.D. and others, well look out, Jack.
Deets below.
El Protector De La Gente, Mr. Brown:
Here’s the beef and here’s the settlement.
“Brown Halts UCLA Professor’s Use of Charitable Funds for Personal Business Ventures
Los Angeles -Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today reached a settlement with UCLA Professor Gerald D. Buckberg, M.D., and five officers of the nonprofit L.B. Research and Education Foundation (“L.B.”) that forces them to stop using the charity as a “personal bank account” to finance their business ventures.
“Professor Buckberg and his associates used the charity as a personal bank account to finance their research and business ventures,” Brown said. “This self-dealing is a clear breach of their fiduciary duties and under today’s settlement, Buckberg must return $140,000 in diverted funds to the charity.”
Buckberg founded L.B. in 1997 and has served as the charity’s director, chief executive officer, and manager. The purpose of the charity, as stated in the articles of incorporation, is to “provide help to persons with physical and psychological problems, provide funding for research activities related to physical or psychological problems and to provide funding for scholarships and other programs that improve education.”
Under California law, “no part of a charitable organization’s income or assets may inure to the benefit of any director, officer, member or private person.” However, an investigation launched by Brown’s office in 2007 revealed that Buckberg and L.B.’s officers used the charity’s assets to finance their own medical research, the research activities of companies in which they had a financial interest and the development of medical devices that they sold.
On September 9, 2009, Brown sued the charity and its officers to stop these illegal practices. Today’s settlement agreement forces Buckberg to return $140,000 in diverted funds to L.B., and:
- Prohibits L.B. from using grants or other funding to directly or indirectly support research by L.B.’s officers and directors or any entity in which they have a financial interest;
- Requires L.B. to report future grant awards to Brown’s office;
- Prohibits Buckberg from serving as an officer of L.B.;
- Requires the transfer of control of L.B.’s corporate checkbook and bank accounts from Buckberg to the Chief Financial Officer;
- Requires L.B. to hire experts to educate officers and board members about charitable trust law and their fiduciary duties, to develop a conflict of interest policy and to develop a grant-making review process to ensure that future grants comply with state and federal law;
- Mandates that new board members be elected by a majority of the board and that two independent board members be added; and
- Requires L.B. to keep financial books and records that clearly set forth expenditures.
Under the settlement, Brown’s office will also be reimbursed for its legal fees.
L.B. has been primarily funded by Buckberg, although it has received some funding from several other individuals and businesses.
To report charity fraud, contact the Attorney General’s Office at 1-800-952-5225 or file a complaint online at: http://ag.ca.gov/charities/forms/charitable/ct9.pdf.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Graces UCSF at Ceremony for Stem Cell Institute
Thursday, December 18th, 2008Well, yesterday was a great day for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and UCSF when the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundationgave away a big fat $25,000,000 check for stem cell research up at the Parnassus Campus.
Read all about it or take a look at the video.
This was Arnold’s first visit ever to UCSF, so Chancellor J. Michael Bishop gave him the business about it. Click to expand:
The stars of the show – Arnie and Mr. Eli Broad
Is that a gold fleur-de-lys ring? Something like that.
Jeff Sheehy, Director for Communications athe UCSF AIDS Research Institute, along with fellow CIRM Independent Citizens Oversight Committee Board Member David Serrano Sewell
Here’s the very steep site today …
and here’s what it will look like come 2010:
And they even had edible chocolate-dipped model stem cells. At the reception a Dr. Peter van Nostrum helpfully explained that the pink sprinkles represent the amino acid lysine:
Good luck, UCSF!
Details after the jump.
