Medical School to Construct Sex Center

The Medical School will begin construction in July of a $4.5 million structure on Shattuck Street in Boston to house its new Laboratory of Human Reproduction and Reproductive Biology. The six-story building, designed by Architects Collaborative of Cambridge, is scheduled for completion in August, 1970.

Reproduction

One of the primary objectives of the laboratory will be to study the functioning of the reproductive system in order to find better methods of birth control. Research will extend from the development of eggs and sperm to the newborn.

Roy O. Greep, John Rock Professor of Population Studies in the Faculty of Public Health and a member of the Department of Anatomy in the Medical School, will direct the laboratory.

The Ford Foundation, the Avalon Foundation, and the United States Public Health Services are providing most of the construction funds. A two million dollar grant from the Rockefeller Foundation will be used to support faculty and staff over a ten-year period.