Jules Stein Building reopens after $65M renovation to expand vision-science campus

TheUCLA Stein Eye Institute marked its 50th anniversary and the reopening of the Jules Stein Building, recently renovated to create a  state-of-the-art facility to advance UCLA’s work in the field of ophthalmology.“Today, the institute really is a vision-science campus,” Chancellor Gene Block said at the April 20 anniversary ceremony celebrating the grand reopening of the Jules Stein Building. “It’s an interconnected community with the new Jules Stein Building, the Doris Stein Building, and the Edie& Lew Wasserman Building. ”The expanded facilities enable UCLA to broaden research and provide exemplary care for patients in the treatment of eye disease. The renovated Jules Stein Building features two floors of new modular laboratories, which can expand and contract for researchers, as funding needs change. The comprehensive ophthalmology and glaucoma areas have been redesigned, as has the Center for Community Outreach and Policy.  And urgent care is now a separate unit.The renovation will help the institute continue delivering cutting-edge clinical care, said Dr. Bartly Mondino, director of the UCLA Stein Eye Institute for the past 23 years. “More space allows us to create revolutionary, new programs in treating eye disease, using techniques such as stem cells, gene therapy and even ‘big data,’ to help us gain a 360-degree view of a patient’s health problems, leading to new findings, novel treatment plans and more accurate dia gnosis,” said Mondin...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news