Planned Central Clinic and Research
Facility
A patron has tentatively agreed to donate a 5 acre
parcel of land that abuts into a beautiful, recreational reservoir in a
small community that is proximate to Berkeley. For this first center, it
is imperative to be close to Berkeley because that is one of three or four
centers in the world where the advanced research is occurring in those areas
of bio-technology that pertain to life-extension science. There is nothing
comparable to being in the geographical location that is appropriate to
your interests (i.e., if you want to be in investment banking, then be in
New York; if you want to make movies, then be in Hollywood; computers, Silicon
Valley; etc.). For life-extension science, Berkeley and the San Francisco
Bay area is where one needs to be. This proposed facility would serve as
a model for proliferation into a network of chapter facilities. The capital
that is required for the installation is about $8.5 million, including furnishing
and equipment, and it would require an operating budget of some $2 million
annually to serve a participant population of about 2,000. If only a small
percentage of the Internet community, which was interested in health, would
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The facility is a two storey structure with under-ground
parking (not shown here). Total square footage is 36,000 sq. ft. of which
13,000 would be the 1st floor, 10,000 the second floor, and 13,000 the parking,
storage, and ancillary functions. The round configuration is adopted from
three models: Melvin Calvin's Bio-dynamics Lab at UCB, the Pantheon in Rome,
and the Bernal Sphere (Torus) design for a space colony by G. O'Neill. This
configuration is both aesthetic as well as functionally most appropriate. |
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The second floor is dedicated to research. There will
be a small Experimental Animal Colony for evaluating life-extension agents
as well as confirming submissions to what we call the "Million Dollar
Mouse Project". Also, there will be a research laboratory that focuses
on the development of "eumitotic" agents, stem-cell technologies,
and clinical histology, clinical chemistry, and relevant biological markers
of ageing and disease. |
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