University of Massachusetts Medical School
Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building, Worcester, MA
This signature building represents a new era in research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and has helped position the university more competitively among its peers.
Key Features
- First significant building project on campus in nearly 30 years.
- Expands the medical school’s capacity for integrated education, research, and clinical health sciences by 60 percent.
- Houses a cancer center, the departments of Medicine, Neurobiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, and programs focused on genetics and comparative medicine.
- Research “neighborhoods” organized around three internal atria create a visual and functional connection between floors and offer respite and interaction space.
- Includes generically rendered lab space that can be customized by users.
