New initiatives of the Keck School and its hospital partners are resulting in a combined investment of close to $1.5 billion to update and expand campus medical research, classroom and health care facilities over the next decade. Planning and construction on three new research facilities and three new patient care buildings have already begun.

New research space is critical to the Keck School’s plans to become a top 10 medical school. Outlined in the Keck School’s strategic plan, the School is now in the process of building four new research facilities totaling 585,000 square feet. Facilities include a neurogenetic institute, a cancer research tower, a heart and transplantation biology institute, a general biomedical science building, and, adjacent to the Health Sciences Campus, a biomedical research park.

A parallel effort calls for the replacement of outdated labs and research facilities with state-of-the-art research buildings. Combined, these endeavors will create more than 1 million square feet of new research space, while increasing and modernizing classroom spaces.

• The Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC broke ground in September 2008. The $80 million-facility is a partnership between voter created California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. Once completed, the five-story center will house basic and clinical researchers working collaboratively on stem cell research.
  
  
• The next project to begin will be the replacement of outdated research space for currently funded faculty.
  
  
• A fourth new research building dedicated to basic biomedical research is also planned for the future.

Patient Care Facilities

• The County of Los Angeles recently completed construction on a new nearly $1 billion, 1.5 million-square-foot hospital, located adjacent to the original LAC+USC Medical Center. The hospital opened to the public in November 2008.