The University of Cincinnati has named a director for its new Genome Research Institute to be located in recently acquired laboratory buildings in Reading.

        Dr. David Millhorn, chairman of UC's Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, will serve as director of a research lab that hopes to include more than 40 researchers and about 250 support staff. The genome research institute will be the first major tenant of the former Aventis Pharmaceuticals site, on 23 acres near Ronald Reagan Highway and Galbraith Road.

        “For the first five years, our mission is to start with a core of investigators already at UC and then add to that by recruiting world-class researchers to the UC institute,” Dr. Millhorn said. “By the end of the first five years, we hope to have a group of 40-50 principal investigators and their staffs at the institute. That translates into about 250 individuals involved in research programs.”

        UC acquired the Aventis site in late February as part of a donation to the university valued at more than $100 million. The site is part of a larger effort to double medical research at UC in the next several years.
       

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