{"id":14,"date":"2009-02-16T20:51:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ucftoday.thebureaucracy.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2019-07-17T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T19:37:02","slug":"college-of-medicine-creates-30000-jobs-invests-billions-in-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/college-of-medicine-creates-30000-jobs-invests-billions-in-region\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Medicine Creates 30,000 Jobs, Invests Billions in Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\u201cIn a time of declining economic activity around the globe, Central Florida has a proven economic engine in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/locations\/#college-of-medicine\">UCF College of Medicine and medical city at Lake Nona<\/a>,\u201d UCF President John Hitt said. \u201cThis development is a powerful demonstration of our city, counties and state partnering with an entrepreneurial public university for the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The new figures are based on current and future commitments to the medical school and the life-sciences cluster developing at Lake Nona, now known throughout Central Florida as the medical city. The study shows that in just two years, UCF and the medical city have already achieved 80 percent of the economic impact originally projected for 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;History has shown that successful biotech hubs have at their core a medical school, which drives scientific exchange and the pursuit of knowledge. The presence of the UCF medical school was an extremely important factor in our decision to locate our East Coast campus at Lake Nona,\u201d says Dr. John Reed, M.D., president and CEO of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/med.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/med.ucf.edu\/.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The College of Medicine could create more than 30,000 local jobs and have an economic impact of $7.6 billion, according to an Arduin, Laffer &amp; Moore Econometrics 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