ADVISORY/Tour of UCSF Genentech Hall At New UCSF Mission Bay Campus -- First Scientists Moving in This Week.News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant (Jan. 10) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: This week, UCSF scientists, students and staff began moving into the new UCSF Genentech Hall at UCSF's Mission Bay Campus. Genentech Hall, which broke ground in 1999, is the first of three research buildings in Phase 1 of UCSF's ambitious development of its 43-acre research campus at Mission Bay. Research in UCSF Genentech Hall includes structural and chemical biology, as well as molecular and cell biology. Genentech Hall has been designed to maximize collaboration between scientists in different disciplines to boost new research insights. More than 900 scientists, staff and students will work and study here when the move-in is completed in May. Genentech Hall tour will include a look at a fifth-floor research laboratory and the novel features that spur collaboration. WHEN: 10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 10, 2003 WHERE: Front (north-facing) entrance of Genentech Hall, at 16th St. and Owens St. (near 16th and 3rd St.) WHO: Reg Kelly, Ph.D., UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor for Research BACKGROUND: The two other Phase 1 research buildings are already under construction at UCSF's Mission Bay Campus: the Developmental Biology and Genetics building, to be completed this year, and the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), due for completion next year. A community center and housing complex are also slated in this first phase. The long-range plan for the UCSF Mission Bay Campus includes 20 buildings, doubling the research, teaching and support capacity over the next 20 years. DIRECTIONS from downtown Downtown (called a "city centre" in British English) is a term used in North America when referring to a city's core, usually both in a geographical and commercial / community sense. , S.F.: Take Third St. across Mission Creek Canal. Follow 'Third St. South' detour signs. Resume south on Third St. to 16th St. Turn right on 16th and then right into paved pave tr.v. paved, pav·ing, paves 1. To cover with a pavement. 2. To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. 3. To be or compose the pavement of. parking lot east of Genentech Genentech Inc. (NYSE: DNA), a composite of Genetic Engineering Technology, Inc., is a leading biotechnology corporation, which was founded in 1976 by venture capitalist Robert A. Swanson and biochemist Dr. Herbert W. Boyer. Hall. Follow 'Pedestrian Access to Genentech Hall' signs. Meet at northeast “Northeastern” redirects here. For the Boston college, see Northeastern University, Boston. Northeast or north east is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. It is the opposite of southwest. See boxing the compass. corner of the building. If you plan to attend or need more information, call UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco News Services: 415/476-2557. |
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