Facilities used by Center members are located within the Department of Environmental Medicine in Sterling Forest, Tuxedo, NY, which includes a 73,011 square foot building with laboratories and office space. The Department of Environmental Medicine also has research and office space in Manhattan, which primarily houses the Environmental Epidemiology Research Core and the Biostatistics Division of the Department (11,692 square feet, which includes 8,791 square feet of newly renovated space that includes the Environmental Health Statistics and Bioinformatics Facility Core). The location and overview of the Center research facilities at Sterling Forest and in Manhattan are shown in Figure 4. We have research and office space in all the buildings numbered in this figure.

The locations listed above house the various equipment discussed in the Facility Core narratives, but there are several other research facilities within the NYU School of Medicine that are used by Center members. Of particular interest and importance are the use of the Protein Sequencing and Synthesis, and Transgenic Mouse Facilities, both of which are housed at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (350 First Avenue, NY, NY; #1 in Figure 4) and are available to Center members. Additionally, the NYU Cancer Institute has developed a sophisticated gene array core and bioinformatics facility linked to the world famous NYU Courant Institute of Mathematics. This facility is state-of-the-art and is of benefit to many Center members who are also members of the NCI-funded Cancer Center. Our newly redesigned Environmental Health Statistics and Bioinformatics Facility Core provides Center member with a gateway to that much more advanced computational facility. The NYU School of Medicine also has a Center for AIDS Research and a General Clinical Research Center, which both offer opportunities for Center members to use the core facilities of these Centers and to collaborate in research involving humans.

There has also been a continued expansion of basic and clinical faculty research at NYU School of Medicine, which improves the quality of its education and research programs. The NYU School of Medicine has now become a more integral part of New York University. The Dean of the Medical School is Dr. Robert Glickman, the former Chairman of Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital at Harvard Medical Center. Dr. Glickman is currently building the new Smilow research building in Manhattan in addition to the Skirball Biomolecular Research Institute, which was built nine years ago. Along with this growth, the NYU School of Medicine has added many new, outstanding faculty members, some of whom are members of the National Academy of Sciences and Howard Hughes Investigators.