The Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics is located in the Pelotonia Research Center on the campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The five story, 305,000 square-foot laboratory building was designed and built with large lab spaces and new technologies and resources needed for Ohio State University researchers to work across disciplines to accelerate new discoveries. The building is named in recognition of Pelotonia’s collaboration with the Ohio State University, which began in 2008 and has raised more than $260M for cancer research.
Structured to encourage team science, the building is organized into neighborhoods focusing on disease specific research. By collocating similar research and disciplines, labs are encouraged to share equipment, resources, and knowledge, thereby accelerating discoveries that will bring science from bench to bedside.
Areas of emphasis
- Foundational Therapeutics: Design, develop and validate therapies for disease using novel methods and models to improve translational research.
- Tissue Models: Advance programs in stem cell biology and tissue engineering across diseases.
- Molecular Medicine: Advance fundamental biology to whole organ/body models and clinical correlates using preclinical modeling and systems biology approaches.