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"G" is for Genome (and Green)

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / July 19

The University of Toronto’s Terrence Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research (TDCCBR) is Canada’s foremost human genome research center. The facility is home to 400 specialists who perform ground-breaking research in genetics and disease. Organized as a collaborative, interdisciplinary research center, TDCCBR required a facility that was functional, highly flexible, and technologically advanced. Located at the southeast corner of the University of Toronto’s St. George campus, the 248,378-square-foot, $86 million USD/$100 million Canadian facility is in the center of the city’s densely built historic district. Formerly a small parking and service area, the narrow building site is straddled between two historic buildings on College Street, a main city thoroughfare. TDCCBR is both a symbolic and physical connection that bridges the academic community to the north, the medical community to the south, and people who live and work in the area.

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