Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA
Center for Aging and Neurodisorders

A restoration of a three-story Charlestown Navy Yard building, this 90,000-square-foot space primarily houses Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Neurology research activity related to aging and to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The building is designed to create "neighborhood" laboratories. Based on the ratio of six researchers per faculty, it establishes 12 bench neighborhoods in a continuous open laboratory. The building also incorporates animal facilities, including procedure-study rooms for neurosciences case studies, and a Center for Engineering in Medicine that studies genetic tissue on data chips. It includes a highly advanced Class 10,000 clean room facility. The floor’s central gathering place is a cylindrical library and computer center. The plethora of windows makes this space visible from the elevator lobby.