Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion

1150 St Nicholas Avenue | Washington Heights | built 1995

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The lot about 1940
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The lot about 1985
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  1. 1997

    May 30

    Columbia opens the $66 million Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion

    Designed by Davis Brody Bond, the seven-story, 175,000-square-foot building was the first new research building at the medical center in more than 20 years. It doubled Columbia's cancer laboratory space, gave two floors to an expanded genetics program, and included underground parking, ground-floor retail and conference space for up to 180.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  2. 1997

    Toy maker Russ Berrie and the Fairchild Foundation fund the pavilion

    Berrie, founder of the plush toy and gift company Russ Berrie and Company of Oakland, New Jersey, gave $13.5 million. The Fairchild Foundation added $10 million, and federal, state and Columbia money covered the rest. The pavilion was the second structure in the Audubon Biomedical Science and Technology Park.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  3. 1997

    The Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center takes the second floor, named for Russ Berrie's mother

    Berrie, who like his mother had diabetes, named the center for her. Columbia planned it to treat patients and run research on a scale unavailable elsewhere in New York, opening to patients in early 1998. A pediatrics research group studying genes that control body weight and diabetes risk shared the building.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

  4. 1997

    Columbia's Genome Center and cancer geneticists move into the Berrie building

    The Genome Center, which hunts for genes behind inherited diseases, was to take space equal to two floors, helped by a $30 million agreement with VIMRx Pharmaceuticals. Up to eight faculty from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center were to study cancer genetics here, and occupants were due to move in after July 1.

    Source: cuimc.columbia.edu

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