PHOTOS: UCI’s Falling Leaves Building Designed for Discovery

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Researchers seek to prevent and find cures for some of the most difficult to solve diseases within the University of California, Irvine’s new Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building.

The 215,000-square-foot facility, opened last May, has six floors filled with 13 different research programs chosen form a highly competitive selection process. They focus on a range of illnesses ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to blindness.

The Business Journal on Feb. 10 took a tour of the facility to meet with some of the directors leading the research programs and learn what they’re focusing on.

For more on Falling Leaves, see the Feb. 16 issue of the Business Journal. 

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Falling Leaves is the newest addition to the school’s health sciences district, joining the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing and Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences. It’s also only a mile from the new UCI Health – Irvine medical campus. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.



The interior lobby of the six-floor building. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.



UCI officials last year celebrated the completion of the building, which received $53 million in total financial support from Adeline and Robert Mah (fourth and fifth from left).



Robert Hunt, who leads the Epilepsy Research Center, pictured with lab personnel. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.



Falling Leaves was designed to promote collaboration with shared laboratories and meeting spaces, officials said. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.



UCI professor of dermatology Anand Ganesan is an investigator within the Interdisciplinary Skin Science Program. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.



Test tubes containing skin samples, used by scientists in the skin lab to understand skin at the molecular level. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.



A staff scientist in Dr. Krzysztof Palczewski’s lab conducts research. Palczewski leads both the Brunson Center for Translational Vision Research and the Genome Editing Research Program. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine.

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