Pennington breaks ground on research facility
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Gov. Bobby Jindal and Pennington Biomedical Research Center officials broke ground on the center’s new $50 million clinical trial building and other renovations this morning at the Perkins Road campus.
Slated to open in July 2010, the four-story structure on the northwest side of the Pennington site will ease a lab and office-space crunch for scientists engaged in nutrition research. Baton Rouge chamber and political leaders successfully lobbied the Legislature in 2007 and 2008 to raise the priority for state capital outlay bonds that will pay for the project, which is forecast to have a $110 million annual economic impact, Jindal said.
The 403,000-square-foot Pennington campus, which opened in 1988 with a $125 million gift that decade from oil magnate C.B. “Doc” Pennington, now houses 53 research labs and is home to 80 faculty members and more than 600 scientists, physicians and support staff doing research in 10 major areas, from cancer, diabetes and obesity prevention to molecular genetics and stem cell biology.
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