The Johns Hopkins Institutions, the National Institutes of Health and the city of Baltimore this week will officially celebrate their partnership on the start of construction of NIH's new state-of-the-art Biomedical Research Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus.

The event will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Tues., Oct. 12, at Bayview.

The new center, which will overlook I-895 and Lombard Street, is NIH's biggest construction project in Baltimore.

The $250 million, 500,000-square-foot center will occupy 12 acres on the Bayview campus and will be home to the intramural research programs of the NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Aging. It will provide laboratories, clinical space and offices for approximately 1,000 scientific researchers and support staff.

In addition to Johns Hopkins leaders, other expected attendees are Elias A. Zerhouni, director of the NIH; Nora D. Volkow, director of NIDA; Richard J. Hodes, director of NIA; Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland; Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland; and Baltimore Mayor Martin O' Malley.

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