Northwestern University unveiled its biomedical research center Monday, which the school says is the largest new academic building dedicated to biomedical research in the U.S.
The Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center held its official opening Monday on its Chicago medical campus. The 12-story, 625,000-square-foot building is designed to "generate scientific collaborations" between the university's cancer, cardiovascular disease, neuroscience, nanotechnology and other programs.
The building will create 2,000 new high-paying, full-time jobs, and the medical school can now attract an additional $150 million a year in new research funding to reach $1.5 billion in 10 years, the university said. Northwestern currently brings in more than $700 million in total sponsored research funding annually.
“The Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center is an inspired new home for discovery on Northwestern University’s Chicago medical campus,” Dr. Eric G. Neilson, vice president for medical affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said in a statement. “Inside this modern new building, scientists will pioneer discoveries that will impact the practice of medicine and transform human health. Here, we will accelerate the pace of lifesaving medical science that fuels the local and national economy, near world-class campus partners and in a global city with unrivaled opportunities for biomedical commercialization and entrepreneurship.”
The building also has room to grow, with the potential to more than double in size with 16 new floors planned for the second phase of construction.
See the space below:
