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Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health Initiates Expansion
The Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health is initiating a $16.5 million expansion and renovation of its Winnipeg research facility. Designed by Smith Carter and built by PCL Constructors, the project includes a 1,600-sm, three-story laboratory addition and infrastructure upgrades to the National Microbiology Laboratory and the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease. Completion is expected by March of 2011.
Life Science Collaborative Plans Portland Facility
Five universities will partner to create the $200 million Life Science Collaborative Facility in Portland, Ore. The 300,000-sf project will be led by Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University, with Oregon State University, University of Oregon, and Oregon Institute of Technology as partner institutions. Housing bioscience research and instruction, the building will include dedicated space for some institutions as well as shared collaborative space.
M.D. Anderson-Orlando Cancer Research Opens Lake Nona Facility
The M.D. Anderson–Orlando Cancer Research Institute opened its 30,000-sf research laboratory in Orlando in October of 2009. The wet lab facility is located on the fifth floor of the University of Central Florida’s Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences building in the Lake Nona medical research district.
Medical Research Council Plans Cambridge Biomedical Campus
The Medical Research Council is planning to construct the 2.4 million-sf Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The project will be developed by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Countryside Properties, and Liberty Property Trust. Housing facilities for biomedical research, clinical treatment, and instruction, the £900 million project will be located adjacent to the 270,000-sf Laboratory of Molecular Biology currently under construction at the site.
Concordia University Plans Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics
Concordia University is planning to construct the Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics (CSFG) in Montreal, Quebec. Supported by $30 million in federal and provincial funding through the Knowledge Infrastructure Program, the facility will be constructed as a 5,400-sm wing attached to the existing Richard J. Renaud Science Complex on the Loyola Campus. The Genomics Centre will house interdisciplinary laboratories for the study of genomics, systems biology, biotechnology, and bioinformatics.