Labs for three physician researchers will occupy the UPMC Immune Transplant and Therapy Center in Bloomfield when it opens in the fall of 2021, a cornerstone in the city’s plans for an innovation district and new economy.
Steel and heavy industry long dominated Pittsburgh’s economy, but all that has been changing.
The new center will house the labs of Mark Jay Shlomchik, chair of the department of immunology at the University of Pittsburgh; Robert Ferris, director of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center; and Fadi Lakkis, scientific director of Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, in 245,000 square feet of a sprawling historic building where Model T Fords were once assembled on Baum Boulevard.
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