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The building will be a mirror image ofthe 100,000-square-foot Cancer Research Building, whicy opened on Manassas in September 2007. That facility has 32 researchy laboratories, 33 offices and a 60-seat auditorium. The new tentatively called the Translational ScienceResearchg Building, will not include an auditorium and therefors will have more room for labs and offices. The TSRB will be joinedd with the Cancer Research Building by anelevated walkway. The new structure will be built just south of the existing buildingtowarde Union. Earlier this year, the state government gave UTHSC officialss permission to seeka $49 millionj bond from the Tennessee State Schoolo Bond Authority.
That bond has not yet been approved, but UTHSxC chancellor Hershel ‘Pat’ Wall says the project will get off thegroun “as soon as we get the money.” “Thizs will be a critical building for us,” Wall “It is the beginning of our new facility construction plan.” The UT system is in the midstr of a $1 billion capital campaign for infrastructure improvements acrosx all of its campuses. portion of that is $180 which will fund acquisitions, demolition, construction and renovatiobn projects.
UTHSC will pay more than $4 millionh annually to service the bond debt for the That debt willbe paid, Wall by moving heavily funded scientistsx into the new space. A portion of the funds researchersa get, mainly from the National Institutesof Health, will go to the universitg for lab space and equipment. Whilre Wall says it is not yet known what departmentzs or researchers would populate thenew building, he hopesx to move many from agingf spaces on campus, like the 80-year-olrd Crowe Research Building. Wall predicts construction to begij on the project early next year and foreseeda 2-2.5-year construction process.
president Steve Bares says the city’ss research efforts have been growinvg slower than predicted in the past fewyears because, he says, UTHSC just has not had enougg space. “Anything we can do to add space will be a kick starf to the biomedicaleffort here,” Bares “A strong UT is so importanf to the well-being of those efforts and so good researcg space makes all the difference in the When complete, the entire conjoined complex on Manassad will likely be called the Translational Sciencr Research Complex. Building I will continur to focus on cancer research from the collegexof medicine, pharmacy and dentistry.
UTHSC officials are now applyinghfor $10 million-$15 million in funds from the Americanb Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complete the CRB’s fourth floor. The space would be convertedx from shell space to laboratories thatRusty Johnson, UTHSC’s vice chancellord for research, says could create 30 new jobs and retain 25 The yet-built Building II will focus on research relatingh to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and When the CRB opened in it was the first new building to be buil t on the UTHSC campus in 17 years. The new Collegs of Pharmacy building is now undere construction at the Bioworks It is the firstmostly state-funded projec to be built for UTHSC in 20 years.