Facilities
Hospital Campus
The Seattle Children's Hospital campus is a 24-acre site in Seattle's Laurelhurst neighborhood. It is equipped with the most advanced diagnostic and therapeutic equipment and provides a fertile environment for clinical and health services research.
The Pediatric Clinical Research Center is located on the seventh floor of the main campus. This 5,625 square-foot facility supports an active clinical and translational research program.
Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute
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In October 2006, Children's acquired two research buildings totaling nearly 500,000 square feet.
The adjacent buildings are located in downtown Seattle, close to our current research partners, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and other biotechnology centers. The physicians and scientists that staff Children's Research Institute are faculty members at the University of Washington.
The 1900 9th Avenue building encompasses 216,088 square feet on 11 floors, four of which are outfitted for bench laboratory research. The 1915 Terry Avenue building provides 251,095 square feet on seven floors.
Over the course of the next several years, Children's Research Institute will create nine Research Centers in these buildings.
The facilities will have an initial staff of approximately 250, and ultimately, interdisciplinary teams totaling approximately 500 researchers will collaborate here, conducting bench research and clinical trials.
The 1900 Ninth Ave facility includes a state-of-the-art barrier vivarium as well as core laboratories for flow cytometry.
Metropolitan Park West Campus
Children's Research Institute at Metropolitan Park West (MPW) provides 40,000 square feet of space to support Children's Research Institute clinical and health-services research programs.
More than 200 research faculty and staff are located at MPW.
In addition, pediatric investigators supported by Children's Research Institute are located at the: