Winthrop University Hospital celebrated the topping out of the $65 million Winthrop Research Institute in September of 2013 in Mineola, N.Y. The five-story, 95,000-sf building was designed by Perkins Eastman and is slated for completion in 2015. The translational research and academic facility will provide classrooms, a clinical trials center, a simulation training suite, and core laboratories for the study of diabetes, obesity, cardiopulmonary disease, and neurology. The building also includes commons areas, space for community events, basement-level research support space, and below-grade parking. To encourage interaction, flexible open labs connect to the clinical research and patient care environments through communal spaces and a large open circulation stair infused with small conversation zones. This connects the ground-floor education and community outreach functions with the upper floors while visibly promoting the mission of the translational environment. Lend Lease is managing construction of the project. Winthrop University Hospital is affiliated with the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.
