Ground Broken For NCI

Ground was broken recently for a National Cancer Institute facility in Montgomery County,Maryland.Part of a Johns Hopkins University campus,the 200 million dollar project will consist of 575,000 square feet of office space over two connected buildings.It will house 2100 workers at completion in 2013,and is sited next to three JHU buildings already on Medical Center Drive.The buildings will be seven stories high and include retail space and a parking garage as well.
The project is part of the Shady Grove Life Sciences Center in the D.C. suburb of Rockville,Maryland.It will cover nine acres on the JHU campus,which is home to 16 biotech firms and serves 4,000 students and 450 faculty annually.The NCI facility supplements two others it currently occupies in Montgomery County.
Johns Hopkins University was the leading academic institution for total R&D spending in fiscal 2009 for the 31st consecutive year,according to the National Science Foundation.JHU spent 1.85 billion on medical,science and engineering research.
Johns Hopkins is spearheading a science city project in Montgomery County,Maryland.

Stimulus Funds Cancer Projects

Some of the U.S. government's economic stimulus package will be used to fund four cancer projects by Science Applications International Corporation,or SAIC,for the National Cancer Institute in Fort Detrick,Maryland.The funding will be an estimated 302.5 million dollars for the Cancer Genome Atlas;Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments,or TARGET;NCI Community Cancer Centers Program;and the Cancer Human Biobank.These projects will further genomic research on tumor samples;create mini-cancer centers for clinical trials and research specimen collection and storage in local communities;and develop standardized procedures that are evidence-based for biospecimen collection and processing,storage and distribution for research,while creating a publicly-accessible database.
SAIC has been an NCI contractor for many years.It was founded in 1969 by a small group of scientists led by J. Robert Beyster,Ph.D.A FORTUNE 500 company,SAIC and its subsidiaries have about 45,000 employees in more than 150 cities worldwide.SAIC specializes in addressing complex and critical technology-related needs,such as national security,energy,the environment,health and critical infrastructure.