UCLA unveils new Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, research center
The Edie & Lew Wasserman building will house the David Geffen School of Medicine’s Institute of Urologic Oncology, the Department of Neurosurgery and the Jules Stein Eye Institute.
(Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
By Hannah Rosson
Oct. 31, 2014 8:01 a.m.
Campus officials unveiled the new Edie & Lew Wasserman Building, a research center and patient-care facility, at a private ceremony earlier this week.
The building is dedicated to the late philanthropists Edie Wasserman and Lew Wasserman, who were among UCLA’s most ardent supporters, according to a UCLA press release.
Among those at the ceremony were former UCLA student Casey Wasserman, current chairman and CEO of the Wasserman Foundation, and other members of the Wasserman family.
The building in Stein Plaza will house David Geffen School of Medicine’s Institute of Urologic Oncology, the Department of Neurosurgery and the Jules Stein Eye Institute.
The first three floors are dedicated entirely to the eye institute and will feature six operating rooms, clinics and practice areas.
The institute is a centralized area where physicians will be able to perform surgeries and patient exams in the same location.
Compiled by Hannah Rosson, Bruin contributor.
