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Science 14 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5771, p. 177
DOI: 10.1126/science.312.5771.177d
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has joined the Italian government and its National Research Council to build a $398 million Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center in Palermo, Sicily. The center will host as many as 600 researchers focused on medical imaging, regenerative medicine, vaccine development, and computational biology. It will expand on the connections UPMC has established with Palermo through its ISMETT organ-transplant hospital, founded in 1997.

ISMETT Director General Bruno Gridelli says the center, funded by Italy and managed by UPMC, will provide opportunities that today are only available abroad. "We will have the control we need to make it work," says UPMC medical school dean Arthur Levine. The new research center will begin hiring this year, and the building is expected to be completed in 2011.




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