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Thinking big Texas

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One of the six medical-research institutions, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has grown from a small wartime medical college to an academic centre with 1,300 faculty members. The original campus couldn't contain this growth, so expansion has been focused on the newer north campus, which recently opened a 14-storey medical-research tower. Building work has started on a six-storey, 18,580-square-metre advanced-imaging centre for animal and human research in neuroscience and cancer. Plans and fund-raising are already under way for a seventh building on that site, says the university's president Kern Wildenthal.

This expansion is providing more scientific job opportunities, says Al Gilman, chairman of pharmacology and one of the medical centre's four Nobel laureates. Gilman expects the university to recruit about 130 research scientists to fill new buildings over the next five years. The medical-research tower will house up to 100 groups, including the entire departments of pharmacology and physiology, one-third of biochemistry, some neurology and developmental biology, and the Alliance for Cellular Signaling. And it will provide space for an expanded Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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