• The Feigin Center provides the needed infrastructure to rapidly translate novel cell and gene therapy protocols directly from the laboratory to the clinic. The new $120 million expansion will include an additional eight floors and 222,000 square feet of space to an existing 12-story building, with an anticipated completion date of summer 2008.

• The added space will accommodate two new floors of open-concept generic lab space, three floors for yet to be identified research projects and administrative offices.

• The Feigin Center expansion will augment Texas Children’s Hospital’s efforts to provide teaching and training for the next generation of health professionals. With more than $90 million in extramural grant support, most of which came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Feigin Center is a premier institution of learning and research.

• More than 120 investigators will collaborate on world-class research in every aspect of pediatric care. Key areas of research and growth include genetics, cardiology, oncology, neurology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicines, neonatology and nephrology.
   
• The U.S.D.A./A.R.S. Children’s Nutrition Research Center (CNRC), the only research facility of its kind in the U.S., will have space in the Feigin Center. This federally funded center is specifically dedicated to pediatric nutritional research and addresses such timely issues as childhood obesity and specific nutritional needs in children.