Florida Hospital, Burnham Institute join forces for research

Florida Hospital and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research announced a new research partnership focused on diabetes and cardiovascular disease called the Florida Hospital-Burnham Clinical Research Institute. Groundbreaking on the seven-story, $45 million building--which also will house the Florida Hospital Diabetes Institute and an array of physicians offices and other medical services--should take place this summer, with an opening as early as August 2009, hospital officials said.