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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School was awarded $15 million by the National Institutes of Health in March of 2010 to support laboratory renovations. The award will enable UMDNJ-NJMS to conduct advanced biomedical research in updated lab facilities.

MGS Manufacturing Group began building a Class 100,000 cleanroom in March of 2010 in Germantown, Wis. The $1.3 million injection molding facility is slated for completion by mid-2010. The 6,250-sf facility is sited in an existing 186,000-sf building.

Med Fusion, a partnership of Baylor Health Care System, Texas Oncology, Pathologists Biomedical Laboratories, and US Oncology, will begin offering integrated translational research services in spring of 2010. The company is headquartered in Dallas and has leased a 172,000-sf facility in Lewisville. Med Fusion will provide integrated pharmaceutical development and clinical trial services.

Sanford Health is consolidating its medical research operations in Sioux Falls, S.D. The facility will open by June of 2010 upon completion of renovations to the existing structure, a former computer parts manufacturing plant. Housing laboratories and offices in two joined towers, the 300,000-sf complex will include a vivarium for animal research.

Mid-Western Regional Hospital will begin construction in August of 2010 on the €35 million Critical Care Unit in Dooradoyle in the Republic of Ireland. The facility will be designed and built by John Sisk & Son. The six-story Critical Care Unit will provide of a 12-bed ICU, a 16-bed coronary care facility, a cardiac catheterization lab, emergency care, diagnostics, and acute surgery facilities. Each floor will have a footprint of approximately 1450 sm. Completion is expected by the end of 2011.