| Burnham Institute for Medical Research opened in April | | | | inflammatory diseases they hope to come up with |
| 2009. It will be the major hub in Lake Nona 's "medical | | | | answers.Sanford Burnham's Lake Nona Campus sits |
| city." Burnham will be "the research anchor" for the La | | | | ten minutes from Orlando International Airport and 10 |
| Jolla, CA's institute. It's primary focus will be cancer. | | | | miles south east of downtown Orlando in what is |
| Burnham has drawn support from UCF's Medical | | | | called Medical City at Lake Nona. |
| School and a research facility constructed by the | | | | The ecology friendly design and construction of |
| University of Florida to complete the $85 million dollar | | | | Burnham's campus is particularly important to its |
| 175,000 square-foot "biotech center." Burnham Institute | | | | developers. Their primary goal of making medical |
| will continue to advance medical technology and | | | | discoveries that benefit the community it serves as |
| stimulate job growth for "high skilled, high paying jobs" | | | | well as contributing to the lives of its employees and |
| to southeast Orlando 's Lake Nona. | | | | the community around it is accentuated by its glazed |
| Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute was built | | | | windows and "high performance exterior glass." The |
| to provide an "innovative research environment" for | | | | building not only makes the most of the environment's |
| scientists from a variety of different fields. It employs | | | | natural landscape as it high lights the surrounding |
| over 750 scientists. They propose to create an | | | | planned communities but it also adds recognition to the |
| environment where they'll be challenged to tackle | | | | building's central purpose of benefiting the environment |
| some of today's most important medical issues and | | | | by lowering heating and cooling costs without |
| create breakthroughs. By focusing on diabetes, | | | | damaging the ecosystem and polluting the outside |
| cardiovascular complication, cancer, infectious, and | | | | environment. |