MUSC Children’s Hospital and Darby Children’s Research Institute
Darby Children’s Research Institute (rev date 10/07)
http://www.musckids.com/research/
The Darby Children's Research Institute (DCRI) opened in February 2005 as the largest and most comprehensive pediatric research facility in the Carolinas. Its mission is to improve the lives of children, their families and communities by conducting high quality children’s research, training superior physicians and scientists, and fostering innovation through the sciences of discovery and application. The 122,000 ft2 7-story building has 150 state-of-the-art laboratory modules providing bench space and core facilities for researchers in 11 multidisciplinary programs, representing many departments and colleges at MUSC. The open lab design and shared research space foster interaction, communication, and collaboration. Enclosed walkways connecting every floor between the DCRI and the adjoining Basic Sciences Building promote intra- and inter-programmatic synergies, along with sharing of high technology resources. The overall goals of the DCRI are to empower talented scientists, promote inclusiveness and collaboration, enable established and new investigators, and increase and diversify funding for pediatric research. The DCRI currently houses basic and translational investigators in cardiobiology, neurosciences, cancer biology, pharmacogenetics, addiction research, pulmonary biology, proteomics, vitamin D metabolism, osteoclast biology, autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and renal biology.