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Dr David Price, Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cancer Research Building, February 13, 1950. Seated on the dais left-to-right: unidentified, Sterling W. Sill, Chairman, Board of Regents; A. Ray Olpin, University President; V.P. White, President, Utah State Medicine Association. The Cancer Research Building, designed by Ashton, Evans & Brazier, was the first building on the eastern edge of campus and was funded by the United States Public Health Service and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The Cancer Research Building was completed in March, 1951. The building, later known as the Medical Research Education Building (MREB), was demolished in 2022. |
