Janelia Farm Research Campus
The Janelia Farm Research Campus, situated on a 689-acre site along the Potomac River in Ashburn, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., provides the setting for interdisciplinary, collaborative research focused on two areas: identifying the general principles that govern how information is processed by neuronal circuits; and developing imaging technologies and computational methods for image analysis.
The total development cost of the project was more than $500 million. In its first two years of operation, expenditures at Janelia Farm totaled approximately $163 million. In fiscal year 2008, expenditures at Janelia Farm totaled $96 million, of which $22 million represented personnel expenditures and approximately $47 million was for equipment and for completing construction of specialized research facilities. When Janelia Farm is at full capacity, which is expected to occur by the end of fiscal year 2012, it will house a permanent research staff of about 250—including 25 group leaders and 20 fellows—and up to 100 visiting scientists.
