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Article: University of Central Florida Eyes Medical School for Orlando.
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- November 12, 2003
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By David Damron, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 12--Being a huge state school surrounded by a booming urban population has University of Central Florida officials wondering if it's time for a major medical school to be built in Orlando.
"When you look at population centers like Orlando, there's few this size that don't have a medical school," said Pappachan E. Kolattukudy, director of UCF's Biomolecular Science Center and chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology. "The opportunity is here."
Kolattukudy and other UCF officials will ask the school's Board of Trustees on Thursday to do ...