The building will be the home of the Children's Research Institute. It will have the two-part mission of discovering new knowledge about pediatric disease, and of translating that knowledge to the bedside as quickly as possible.
Children can t wait.
The partnership between All Children's and USF created funding for the building. The city of St. Petersburg transferred ownership of one city block at the corner of Fourth Street South and Sixth Avenue South to the University to provide a site for the building. The building will have four stories, mostly of laboratories 50,000 square feet in all. Leading the shovel brigade was a trio of youngsters whose lives have already been touched by the types of medical research planned for the new facility. D., dean of USF's St. Petersburg campus.