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The building will be a mirrore image ofthe 100,000-square-foot Cancer Research which opened on Manassas in Septemberr 2007. That facility has 32 researchu laboratories, 33 offices and a 60-seayt auditorium. The new building, tentatively calle d the Translational ScienceResearch Building, will not includd an auditorium and therefore will have more room for labs and The TSRB will be joined with the Cancer Researcnh Building by an elevated walkway. The new structures will be built just south of the existing buildinbtoward Union.
Earlier this the state government gave UTHSC officials permission to seeka $49 millionb bond from the Tennessee State School Bond That bond has not yet been but UTHSC chancellor Hershel ‘Pat’ Wall says the projectt will get off the ground “as soon as we get the “This will be a critical buildiny for us,” Wall says. “It is the beginning of our new facilithconstruction plan.” The UT system is in the midst of a $1 billion capital campaign for infrastructure improvementws across all of its campuses. portion of that is $180 million, whichn will fund acquisitions, demolition, construction and renovation projects.
UTHS C will pay more than $4 million annuallgy to service the bond debt forthe TSRB. That debt will be Wall says, by moving heavily funded scientists into thenew space. A portionb of the funds researchers get, mainly from the Nationapl Institutesof Health, will go to the university for lab spacre and equipment. While Wall says it is not yet known what departmentzs or researchers would populate the new he hopes to move many from agingt spaceson campus, like the 80-year-olde Crowe Research Building. Wall predicts construction to begin on the project early next year and foreseesxa 2-2.5-year construction process.
president Stevre Bares says the city’s research efforts have been growinbg slower than predicted in the past few years he says, UTHSC just has not had enougy space. “Anything we can do to add (research) space will be a kick starr to the biomedical effort Bares says. “A strong UT is so importanf tothe well-being of those effortz and so good research space makes all the differencer in the world.” When the entire conjoined complex on Manassas will likel be called the Translational Science Research Complex. Buildingb I will continue to focus on cancer researchh from the collegesof medicine, pharmacgy and dentistry.
UTHSC officialsw are now applyingfor $10 million-$15 millionn in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to complet the CRB’s fourth floor. The space would be converted from shell space to laboratories thatRusty Johnson, UTHSC’s vice chancellor for research, says coulr create 30 new jobs and retain 25 The yet-built Building II will focus on research relating to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and When the CRB opened in it was the first new building to be built on the UTHSCd campus in 17 years. The new College of Pharmac y building is now under construction at theBioworks campus. It is the firsyt mostly state-funded project to be builgt for UTHSC in20 years.