Complex sentence: Sato was recruited as director of the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center, Lake Placid, New York (1983 to 1992) with the vision of building a research university equal to Rockefeller University in the peaceful setting of the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
Split into simpler sentences: Sato was recruited as director of the W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center, Lake Placid, New York (1983 to 1992). His vision was to build a research university equal to Rockefeller University in the peaceful setting of the Adirondack Mountains of New York.