{"id":5418,"date":"2011-03-12T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"<img class=\" size-full wp-image-8519 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/strf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" \/>\r\n<div class=\"indextxt\">\r\n\r\n<b>South Texas Research Facility facts:<\/b>\r\n<ul class"},"modified":"2016-04-03T21:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T21:45:48","slug":"monumental-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/monumental-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Monumental research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-8519 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/strf1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/strf1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/strf1-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/strf1-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"indextxt\">\n<p><b>South Texas Research Facility facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"bullet_arrow4 imglist\">\n<li>Location: 8403 Floyd Curl Drive<\/li>\n<li>Three stories<\/li>\n<li>190,000 gross square feet of new research space<\/li>\n<li>More than 1,000 feet long<\/li>\n<li>Cost: $150 million<\/li>\n<li>Will accommodate up to 400 scientists, research administrators<br \/>\nand support staff<\/li>\n<li>Will house the latest research technology and eco-friendly features,<br \/>\nincluding nearly 800 energy-saving solar panels<\/li>\n<li>Architects: Rafael Vi\u00f1oly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span class=\"txthead\">South Texas Research Facility set to open this fall<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"txt\">If you took the Statue of Liberty and stacked her three times from toe to torch, she wouldn\u2019t equal the length of The University of Texas Health Science Center\u2019s latest marvel &#8211; the South Texas Research Facility (STRF).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even more impressive than the STRF\u2019s size are the research discoveries that will take place within its walls once it\u2019s completed this fall. Aging, cancer, neurosciences and regenerative medicine are among the core areas of research to be housed within the building.<\/p>\n<p>New York City-based Rafael Vi\u00f1oly Architects melded Big-Apple brilliance with Texas-size ingenuity when they envisioned this monumental masterpiece designed to foster interaction, innovation and collaboration among scientists. Here, research will evolve into therapies that university physicians, who literally work in clinics right across the street from the STRF, can use to immediately benefit patients.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><i>&#8220;We stand on the threshold of a new era in research in which today\u2019s discoveries will translate into tomorrow\u2019s cures. The STRF is the catalyst for motivating and moving scientific breakthroughs to patients\u2019 bedsides like never before. In our researchers, we have the brainpower. 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