At his third annual State of the School address Sept. 26, Dean Joseph Martin unveiled plans for a renewed and expanded Harvard Medical campus on both sides of Longwood Avenue. The circle named in his honor, at the intersection of Longwood and Louis Pasteur Avenues, will become the center of the new campus, Martin said. Groundbreaking is slated for later this year, completion for 2003. It will house a conference center and a 600-seat auditorium, making larger gatherings possible. South Quad space will be freed to create enhanced lab facilities for the other basic science departments and provide opportunities for new scientific initiatives.
Plans are afoot for a vaccine institute and a program for brain repair and tissue regeneration.
Understanding how they work in the whole organism will be an increasing opportunity and challenge. If Martians arrived on the Quad today, dropped into a laboratory, and looked at the science going on there, they often would not be able to tell whether they were in Cell Biology or Biological Chemistry or Neurobiology. This trend is going to gain momentum. For example, Health Care Policy faculty are working with four large national health plans to manage and improve quality of care, and with Medicare on the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey. Scheduled for late November in Washington, D.C. is an HMS-organized meeting of the deans of several leading academic medical centers.