Keck : School : HSC New Initiatives

Health Sciences Campus

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.

CAMPUS PLAN

Expanding Research Space

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A parallel effort calls for the replacement of outdated labs and research facilities with state-of-the-art research buildings.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.

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Biomedical Research Park

A key initiative of the new developments at the Health Sciences Campus is the plan to build a 110-acre biomedical research park. The research park will create more than 8,500 high-paying jobs in East Los Angeles, and draw upon the dynamic biomedical research taking place in Southern California. The park will help researchers from USC, UCLA and Caltech move their innovations from the laboratory to practical applications in the health-care industry.

Biomedical Research Park

Patient Care Facilities

Updates and expansion of patient care facilities are proceeding in tandem with the Keck School’s building plans. Construction of a second outpatient building, an expansion of USC University Hospital and a 600-bed replacement hospital for the LAC+USC Medical Center general hospital are all in progress.

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CONSTRUCTION UPDATES

Research & Education Facilities

The Harlyne J. Norris Cancer Research Tower, now in its planning phase, is a 190,000 square foot expansion of cancer research efforts by Keck School and USC/Norris Cancer Center scientists. Planners began construction in January 2004.
A third research building to house scientists studying transplantation biology, metabolic disease, cardiac research and advanced imaging technologies is now in the initial architectural planning stages. The new facility will add another 200,000 square feet of space in a $97 million building.
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

Tenet Healthcare is currently building a 10-story addition to USC University Hospital called Norris Tower.
The County of Los Angeles is constructing a new $818 million, 1,500,000-square foot, 600-bed hospital next to the Health Sciences Campus, which will replace the existing LAC+USC Medical Center General Hospital.