Dennis Hanley, senior program manager, URS Corp., describes the plans for the Agency’s new White Oak headquarters campus in Montgomery County, Md., to alumni association members during a VIP briefing and tour Nov. 6. Thirty-four alumni attended the event.

Charles Warr, associate director of the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories in FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, describes features of the Engineering and Physics Laboratory Building, currently under construction at White Oak and scheduled to be completed early in 2007.

Buildings under construction at White Oak, to be occupied by the Office of the Commissioner and Office of Regulatory Affairs.

FDA Alumni Association members were given a warm welcome and the VIP treatment during their White Oak tour, as shown by this welcome sign in the new Central Shared Use building.

Large open spaces and bountiful natural lighting are hallmarks of the Central Shared Use building at White Oak. The building houses a library, cafeteria, meeting space, and other facilities for use by the 10,000 FDA employees eventually expected to work at White Oak.

The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Office Building 1 at White Oak, completed in 2005 and now occupied by CDER staff. All buildings at the complex will be connected by walkways and tunnels.

Virginia Behr, a senior project manager in the antiviral products division of FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, talks to alumni about changes in the drug review arena, while sharing stories about working at White Oak.