The renovated and renamed Woodruff Memorial Research
Building
(WMRB) "showcases the best of American medicine," said
medical dean Jeffrey Houpt,
describing it as a building for clinical research "where dedicated
scientists
and physicians work in the laboratories to improve the health of the
nation."
Houpt, Vice President for Health Affairs Charles R. Hatcher Jr., and
President
Bill Chace spoke March 8 at the dedication of the WMRB and its West Wing
addition. The audience included many of those researchers and many of the
people whose vision and support made the new building possible, including
the
trustees of the Woodruff Foundation, leadership of the Georgia Research
Alliance and the trustees and administration of the University and Health
Sciences Center. Houpt said the renovation and expansion of the building,
roughly a $48-million project, "had incalculably improved the medical
school."
He cited major National Institutes of Health center grants in some of the
clinical departments now housed in the building and a number of major
faculty
recruitments made possible only because Emory could provide adequate
laboratory
space. Hatcher also praised the researchers -- "the stars who will shine
even
more brightly in this renewed and expanded building" -- and said they and
"our
patients, indeed all of us, will be the beneficiaries of what is
accomplished
here." He added that the building "honors Mr. Robert Woodruff's vision
for
Emory, and his memory; we believe he would have been proud of this
building
and what our faculty researchers will do in it." Chace said it "was a
great
honor to have this building be part of Emory," calling the renovation and
expansion further evidence of Emory's continued growth and commitment to
clinical research.
-- Sylvia Wrobel
PICTURED: Charlie Andrews, director of space planning for the medical
school gives tour of WMRB addition. Looking on: (left to right) Joseph W.
Jones, Chair of Board of Woodruff Foundation; Charles McTier, President
of
Woodruff Foundation; Jeffrey Houpt, Dean of medical school.
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