Biomedical Science Tower 3

Biomedical Science Tower 3 represents the University of Pittsburgh’s latest commitment to the region’s growing biotech industry. The 10-story, 331,000-square-foot building is located on Fifth Avenue between Darragh and Lothrop streets and opened for its first tenants in late 2005.

BST 3 answers a need for modern, up-to-date research laboratories for such fields as molecular genetics, cellular biology, and biochemistry. The kind of work that being done in the new BST 3 will result in advanced new medical therapies that are destined to help patients for years to come.

By the way, BST 3 gets its name because it’s the companion building to two other, connected skyscraper laboratories on the Pittsburgh campus, which had been called (naturally) BST and BST South. The first BST has now been renamed “Thomas E. Starzl Biomedical Science Tower” in honor of the University of Pittsburgh’s pioneering transplant surgeon, Dr. Thomas Starzl.