Background

Audubon Business and Technology Center is a 100,000 square foot, state of the art, research facility that is managed by Columbia University. Audubon Center was developed by Columbia University, the City of New York and the State of New York. It is designed to house early stage, private research and development companies in the Life Sciences industry. Audubon Center is located in Audubon Biomedical Science and Technology Park, a proposed 1 million square foot development at the eastern end of Columbia University Medical Center.

Audubon Biomedical Science and Technology Park is comprised of the Mary Woodard Lasker Biomedical Research Building, which houses the Audubon Business and Technology Center, and the Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion. The Berrie Pavilion houses a comprehensive diabetes center, genetics research and a research program in pediatrics. The third building in Audubon Park, the Irving Cancer Research Center, opened in May 2005. The Irving Center houses research on cancer, genetics, and cell biology.

Columbia University Medical Center is comprised of more than 4 million square feet of space and is home to approximately 14,000 employees, including over 4,000 faculty and research scientists. The Columbia University Medical Center campus is home to Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons and New York Presbyterian Hospital. The College of Physicians & Surgeons was the first U.S. medical school to grant the M.D. degree in 1770. In 1922, the medical school became part of the world's first academic medical center when it formed an alliance with Presbyterian Hospital. Columbia-Presbyterian is now part of a rapidly growing regional health network, The New York and Presbyterian Hospital Network includes 29 hospitals in the New York metropolitan area as well as 73 ambulatory care facilities and a number of specialty institutes, long-term care facilities, physician groups, and managed care entities.