Sun Health expands research center
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Sun Health Research Institute has opened a second 36,000 square foot medical research building and announced the addition of four new researchers.
The new three-story building will allow the institute's research programs to expand in a number of ways.
The first floor will be home to the Cleo Roberts Center for Clinical Research, doubling its current size. The building's third floor will accommodate the tissue repository for the Brain and Body Donation Program, while the second floor will be saved for future expansion dependent upon donations.
At the building's unveiling, SHRI also announced the names of four new staff members.
Dr. Paul Coleman will join the institute as senior scientist and co-director of the L.J. Roberts Center for Alzheimer's Research, where he will conduct research on how early Alzheimer's begins.
Dr. Philip Khairallah, fellow of the American College of Cardiology and former head of cardiovascular research at the Cleveland Clinic—ranked as one of the top three hospitals in the nation in 2006 by U.S. News and World Report—will develop cardiovascular research at the institute.
Dr. Jeffrey Stern will lead SHRI's new Center for Prostate Cancer and Urologic Research. His initial project will be a Food and Drug Administration study of a drug treatment for bladder cancer.
Dr. Sandra Ann Jacobson will serve as a geriatric neuropsychiatrist, researching the causes of dementia.
"Thanks to support from the community during our almost 21 years in existence, Sun Health Research Institute has grown from a temporary building with one lab and two people to more than 10 labs and 80 people," said Dr. Joseph Rogers, president and founder of SHRI.
Construction of the building was funded entirely through donations as part of a $25 million capital campaign run by Sun Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization that operates the institute and its affiliated health centers.
For more information:
"Sun Health Institute opens research building, adds staff," Arizona Republic, 04/16/2007
SHRI press release, 04/10/2007