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Binghamton University Builds Science and Technology Facilities
Binghamton University is planning to initiate construction on a new research facility, Science V, in spring or fall of 2008. Currently in the design phase, the project will provide additional research and surge space and will be located between Science III and Science IV on the school's Binghamton, N.Y. campus. Completion is expected in fall of 2010. The University will also construct a new engineering facility in the Innovative Technologies Complex, which opened in fall of 2006.
Texas Woman's University Plans Pickens Health Sciences Center
Texas Woman's University is planning to break ground in 2008 on the $32-million T. Boone Pickens Institute of Health Sciences in Dallas. Combining two of TWU's existing educational sites, the new facility will be located in the Southwestern Medical District at the TWU Parkland location. Accommodating programs in nursing, physical and occupational therapy, healthcare administration, and library science, the 143,000-sf multi-building campus will also house the TWU Stroke Center.
Novartis Plans Shanghai Biomedical R&D Center
Novartis is planning to build an integrated research and development center in Shanghai, China. As the eighth site in the company's R&D network, the center will focus on infectious causes of cancer endemic to China and Asia and pharmaceutical research. Scientists will initially occupy a 5,000-square meter facility slated to open in May of 2007. Construction will begin in July 2007 on a permanent 38,000-square meter building to house 400 scientists.
UC Davis Medical Center Plans Center for Regenerative Science and Therapies
The University of California Davis Medical Center is planning to construct the $75-million Center for Regenerative Science and Therapies in Davis, Calif. The University-funded sterile stem cell research laboratory will include testing and manufacturing capabilities and will partner with the California National Primate Research Center and other campus laboratories. Initial construction fees, yet to be approved by the UC Board of Regents, are estimated at $22 million.
Amgen Completes Rhode Island Lab
Amgen Inc. has completed construction of a 29,000-sf process-development laboratory at its manufacturing site in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The $26-million facility will house nearly 80 researchers engaged in discovering more efficient processes of manufacturing Embrel, a rheumatoid arthritis drug. Amgen is also constructing an eight-story, 362,000-sf lab and office building in Cambridge's Kendall Square in Massachusetts to house R&D operations. Completion of the Cambridge facility is expected in the first quarter of 2007.