How to get to the Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program 

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  NCI-Frederick Bldg 469. Room 105
  P.O. Box B
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
  permanent email: toms@alum.mit.edu (use only if first address fails)
  http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/

  301-846-5581 (-5532 for messages)
  301-846-5598 fax

(Note: Please only use one email address!)

short address form:

  Tom Schneider
  NCI-Frederick Bldg 469. Room 105
  P.O. Box B
  Frederick, MD  21702-1201

Report of Visitor Form Please email me the information requested on this form. I will then fill it out.

YOU WILL NEED A PICTURE ID to get in the gate.
Your car may be searched.

Fort Detrick traffic code prohibits the use of hand-held cell phones, Blackberries or similar items, such as personal data assistants, while driving on post. This code is now in effect and applies to all motorists operating a vehicle on Fort Detrick, to include visitors.
If you are from outside NIH, the guards at the gate will direct you to building 426 where you will get a visitor's badge and I will pick you up. Building 426 is two buildings north of 469. (469 is marked green on the map below.)

How To Get Here From Washington D.C.

Subway and Bus

  1. you can use the Metro (my copy of the map) to get to the NIH campus by taking the Red Line to Shady Grove and getting off at the Medical Center stop. (Note: The official NIH metro map might be a little more up to date. If so, please tell me. They are identical as of 1999 Dec 29.)
    Here's the fancy new active metro map: http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm

  2. Once you are at the NIH campus you can walk to building 45, 31 or 10. Building 45 seems to be closest, just over the hill. 10 and 31 are pretty much the same distance. There is a 1999 aerial photo of the Bethesda NIH campus. The metro stop is at about 10 o'clock on the C shaped road which is cut by the diagonal of Rockville Pike (= Wisconsin Av). (You can even see the escallator!) If you are lazy you can take the Bethesda campus shuttle.

  3. From one of those buildings, take the FCRDC/NIH DAILY SHUTTLE SERVICE to get to the Frederick campus. Note the times!

  4. There is also an amusing older aerial photo of the NIH campus which is missing buildings 50 and (nota bene!) 45. Other map information for the main NIH campus is also available.

  5. Once you are on campus, you will be at building 426, which is just above 469 on the map further down this page.

Driving

If you drive, you can come up the route 270 spur from Washington D.C to Frederic, or along route 70 from Baltimore.

The time to get from Dulles International Airport to Frederick is about 40 minutes. After leaving the airport on its access road there are two ways to get here from Dulles. One is to go to the Washington Beltway and then north on route 270 (an hour). The other is to take route 28 north, route 7 east, route 15 north and then route 340 (about 40 minutes). When you reach Frederick, you turn north onto route 15 and follow the instructions below.

Here is a map of the Frederick-Baltimore-DC area:
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Map Legend: 

1.  Johns Hopkins University     5.  Dulles International Airport
2.  BWI Airport                  6.  Georgetown University
3.  University of Maryland       7.  George Washington University
4.  NIH and Bethesda Naval       8.  Washington National Airport Medical Center
9.  FCRDC
Go in either case north along route 15 (270 becomes 15 at route 70 if you stay in the left two lanes). Pass Patrick Street, Pass Rosemont and take the exit at 7th street. This will loop you around 180 degrees, pointing south-west. Go to the right (north west). Pass the stop light, pass the MacDonalds. Continue along on 7th street until it bends sharply left. This is the entrance to Ft. Detrick. Here's what it looks like on a map:


(The map is from the wonderful service, MapQuest.)

Below is an OLD map of the NCI/FCRDC Campus, which is inside Fort Detrick. The significant changes are all on the north east side at the entrance. The entrance is no longer directly onto Ditto avenue. It now curves around to the north and connects to a street that runs between Randall and Ditto called Veterans Drive.


This is a map to the north west:

See the cool dragable, scalable NCI-Frederick Campus Map for more details.
(Bus instructions are below.)

Driving Instructions

Starting from from DC,

They are doing some construction on the facility and some roads are blocked off, so the following will direct you once you are on the base.

You need to get your visitor badge in building 426. The gate has been rebuilt and is north west of the top map. Refer to the lower map. After passing the gate,

Get your badge in building 426. The guards can call my lab (x5581) and I can pick you up.

Instructions for Coming by Bus

You will be at building 426, just above the green building 469, which is your goal.

Other Information

Phone

The Big Picture

Frederick, Washington and Baltimore form an equilateral triangle: 

Frederick - Baltimore
     \        /
     Washington
So the weather reports for Baltimore and Washington give an approximate picture of our hot, wet, and muggy situation.

Places to Stay

We no longer have access to a guest house here. If you are coming here without our support, the secretaries won't make reservations. There are two local hotels I could recommend that are both on a corner of route 40 and Baughman's Lane in Frederick. (Route 40 is just off route 15 - head west to get to Baughman's Lane.)




Schneider Lab
origin before: 1996 April 9
updated: 2008 Jun 12