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LANL Opens Security Science Facility
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) opened the $970-million National Security Sciences building in May of 2006.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Initiates Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building Phase II
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is initiating the second phase of its Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building project. Phase two will cost approximately $120 million and will add 30,000-sf of research space, including the $7.89-million fit-out of the sixth and eleventh floors to house immunological and neuroscientific research, including the expansion of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute. The contractor is Argo Construction.
Albany Molecular Breaks Ground on Hyderabad Facility
Albany Molecular has initiated the first major expansion of its Hyderabad Research Centre in India with the construction of a 50,000-sf R&D center. Slated for completion in late 2007, the facility will house early stage contract drug discovery research, including medicinal chemistry and custom chemical synthesis. The project will include a scale-up production laboratory for active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates.
University of California San Francisco Builds Diller Family Cancer Research Center
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) broke ground in April 2006 on the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, a five-story, 160,000-sf facility designed by Rafael Vinoly. The building will more than double the space for UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers to focus on a variety of cancers including prostate, kidney,and brain. The UCSF Cancer Research Institute will be housed in the new facility, where research on the basic biological mechanisms of cancer will be carried out in 15 major laboratories.
NIH Dedicates New Biodefense Center
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated its new $182.6-million C.W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and Emergine Infectious Diseases building in April 2006. Research in the 84,000-nsf building will focus on infectious diseases of global importance when it opens for occupancy later this year. Construction of the facility began in November 2003 and was completed in December 2005. It accommodates BSL-2 and BSL-3 labs and animal care areas, plus offices and conference rooms and a 1,250-car garage.