Wayne State University plans to break ground later this year on a $200 million Health Sciences Research Building on its Detroit campus.
Crain's Detroit Business reports that the five-story building will bring together researchers from several health sciences disciplines and be structured to help accelerate discoveries in health sciences areas.
Wayne State's 160,000-square-foot Health Sciences Research Building will rise on the site of a university parking lot, across from the medical school. As planned, it will be connected to the Gordon H. Scott Hall of Basic Medical Sciences via a pedestrian bridge.
The new building will "supercharge" research activity happening in four main areas: oncology, translational neuroscience, systems biology and immunology, and metabolism and infectious diseases, said Ezemenari Obasi, vice president for research and innovation at Wayne State.
Researchers will be able to connect directly with residents through community engagement space on the ground floor. Upper floors will largely be wet lab space.
The building will include cutting-edge equipment and safety protocols and laboratories that are designed to enable work with infectious diseases, among other things.
HKS is the architect on the project, Osborn Engineering is the engineer and The Christman Co. is general contractor.
