UAB Cancer Center Opens Renovated Facility
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Comprehensive Cancer Center will open the renovated Lurleen B. Wallace Tumor Institute this Friday. The expanded facility features increased lab space, offices designed to promote collaboration, a cyclotron and a new street level glass facade.
“The old structure really had no obvious front door,” said Dr. Edward Partridge, director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Partridge said beside a new entrance, an atrium brings in lots of natural light to improve the work environment.
Partridge said research is increasingly a team effort and that was difficult in the previous facilities.
“This allows us to bring our teams together in a way we couldn’t do before,” Partridge said.
The tumor institute now features a 61,000-lbs cyclotron, a particle accelerator that can be used to make radioactive isotopes used in medical imaging or therapy. Having the cyclotron on site means UAB researchers can produce agents which are not commercially available.
Partridge said a renovated building will also help in recruiting scientists to Birmingham.
“They want to come to an environment that’s inviting [and] is an upgrade from where they are,” said Partridge.
The three year, $30 million dollar renovation was paid for with state bonds.
Click to see more pictures from the renovated tumor institute.
~ Andrew Yeager, August 20, 2013
Photos: See No Kings protests around the country
People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.
Israel says it killed 9 Iranian nuclear scientists, and braces for attacks from Iran
Israel's military says the nine nuclear scientists killed played spent decades working on Iran's nuclear program.
Can’t-miss interviews: Gavin Newsom, Dave Portnoy and Jason Reynolds
A lot happened this week, and NPR has you covered. Catch up on the big news and culture moments you might have missed.
Minnesota state lawmaker killed, another wounded in targeted shootings
A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings early Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said.
10 years after the deadly church shooting, a new history of ‘Mother Emanuel’
Reporter Kevin Sack's new book is a history of Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, the oldest Black congregation in the South, where a white supremacist killed nine worshippers a decade ago.
In one of the nation’s most polluted communities, Trump terminates funding for air monitoring
Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact.
