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...MCB Professor Matthew Meselson, whose laboratory has been stationed in Fairchild for nearly 30 years, said that while he still awaits further details of the move from administrators, any decision hampering his research would be “very serious” and force him to confront senior University officials...
Faculty members also expressed concerns that the Northwest Science Building—the most likely destination for the displaced MCB laboratories—may provide inadequate facilities. Northwest was only completed last year and still features unpainted drywall and cement flooring in many rooms...
...There are so many people [in Fairchild], so many labs full of equipment,” said MCB professor Guido Guidotti, who noted that the building had been constructed expressly for biochemical research. “Is there going to be comparable space? There probably...
...Some MCB department members also said they were concerned that the University’s eviction of MCB faculty to make way for the stem cell department is indicative of a “corporatization” of science that comes at the cost of basic research. Meselson questioned the University’s prioritization of stem cell research, a highly specialized field that, he speculated, may not exist in 100 years...
...Henle, a lab administrator in Fairchild, said he wrote a letter to University President Drew G. Faust criticizing the administration’s decision to relocate the MCB facilities and asking the renowned historian to envision an analogous situation facing her own department...