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Worcester Polytechnic Institute Constructs Bioscience Incubator
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will break ground in April of 2011 on a $30 million bioscience incubator in Worcester, Mass. Located in Gateway Park, the four-story, 92,000-sf facility will be financed, built, and owned by O’Connell Development Group. The building will house WPI’s Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center, the School of Business graduate program, and the expanded Fire Protection Engineering Department and research laboratory. The building will also provide additional space for the Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center.
UC San Francisco Opens Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) opened the $123 million Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building in February of 2011. The translational research facility was designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects to promote multidisciplinary collaboration and is the headquarters of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. Located on the university's Parnassus campus, the 74,832-gsf (46,283-asf) building houses open laboratories, offices, and support. Ground was broken on the facility in fall of 2008.
CDC Opens Anchorage Biosafety Lab
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opened its expanded Anchorage biosafety laboratory in January of 2011. Doubling existing lab space, the $2.3 million project included renovations of the existing facility to provide additional space for the detection and study of infectious disease agents and bioterrorism threats. The center will include biosafety cabinets with negative airflow and decontamination showers.
Mount Sinai Medical Center Builds Translational Research Facility
Mount Sinai Medical Center is building the Center for Science and Medicine in New York. The 12-story, 500,000-sf facility will provide advanced research, clinical, and imaging facilities. The center will house the Translational Molecular Imaging Institute as well as linear accelerators and infusion suites. Occupancy is expected in 2012. The project construction manager is Bovis Lend Lease.
Abaxis Plans Veterinary Reference Laboratory
Abaxis will open the 20,000-sf Veterinary Reference Laboratory in Olathe, Kansas. The lab will be located in the former Osborn Labs facility and will support collaboration with the Kansas State University Veterinary Diagnostic Lab and the National Institute for Strategic Technology Acquisition and Commercialization. The facility will test point-of-care blood analysis instruments as well as providing veterinary diagnostic analysis services.