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The University of Arizona will begin building a $135 million cancer center in summer of 2012. Part of UA's Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the facility will be a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. The six-story, 250,000-sf clinical and translational research building will be operated in partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. Completion is expected in mid-2014. 

Construction will begin in April of 2012 on the Research, Innovation, Learning and Development Centre in Exeter in the United Kingdom. The medical research facility represents a partnership of the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Exeter, and Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. Designed by Devereux Architects, the four-story building will include a central hub and several wings.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee initiated a $53 million renovation and expansion in December of 2011 to create a new facility for the School of Freshwater Sciences. Construction will begin by May of 2012 and reach completion by November of 2013. The existing Great Lakes WATER Institute will be remodeled and expanded to house ecological research laboratories and offices. 

InVivo Therapeutics has entered into a multi-year lease for 21,000 sf at One Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass. The new facility will serve as the company's fully integrated global corporate headquarters. Bringing all of InVivo's business units under one roof, the facility will house corporate offices, chemistry and biology labs, s surgeon training suite, a rodent vivarium, and a cGMP cleanroom. Occupancy is expected in early 2012. 

Scripps Health will build a $220 million proton therapy center in Mira Mesa, Calif. Construction will begin on the 102,000-sf facility in July of 2012 with completion expected in spring of 2013. The project will be created in partnership with Advanced Particle Therapy.