Christopher Reeve Helps to Dedicate UCI Research Center

Christopher Reeve joined Joan Irvine Smith, UCI Chancellor Laurel Wilkening and about 500 other people Friday in dedicating the first of five buildings planned for the university’s biomedical research center.

The William J. Gillespie Neuroscience Research Facility is home to the Reeve-Irvine Research Center, which is named after the actor. Reeve suffered an equestrian accident that left him paralyzed in 1995.

“The research conducted here will help the world as it strives to find new treatments and cures for some of the most debilitating diseases afflicting humankind,” Wilkening said.