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The building will be a mirror image ofthe 100,000-square-foot Cancer Research Building, which opened on Manassas in Septembet 2007. That facility has 32 research 33 offices anda 60-seat The new building, tentatively called the Translationaol Science Research Building, will not include an auditoriukm and therefore will have more room for labs and The TSRB will be joined with the Cancer Research Buildinyg by an elevated The new structure will be built just south of the existing building towarx Union. Earlier this year, the statr government gave UTHSC officials permission to seeka $49 milliohn bond from the Tennessee Statwe School Bond Authority.
That bond has not yet been approved, but UTHSCf chancellor Hershel ‘Pat’ Wall says the project will get off theground “as soon as we get the “This will be a critical building for Wall says. “It is the beginningt of our new facilityconstruction plan.” The UT system is in the midsrt of a $1 billion capital campaign for infrastructurwe improvements across all of its campuses. portion of that is $180 which will fund acquisitions, demolition, construction and renovation projects. UTHSC will pay more than $4 milliobn annually to service the bond debt forthe TSRB.
That debt will be Wall says, by moving heavilyg funded scientists into the new A portion of the fundsresearcherz get, mainly from the Nationap Institutes of Health, will go to the university for lab spaces and equipment. While Wall says it is not yet knownj what departments or researchers woulfd populate thenew building, he hopes to move many from aging spacesw on campus, like the 80-year-old Crowe Researcg Building. Wall predicts construction to beginj on the project early next year and foreseewsa 2-2.5-year construction process.
presidenf Steve Bares says the city’s research efforts have been growing slower than predicte d in the past fewyeard because, he says, UTHSC just has not had enoug h space. “Anything we can do to add space will be a kick start to the biomedicalefforg here,” Bares says. “z strong UT is so importany tothe well-being of those effort s and so good research space makes all the difference in the When complete, the entire conjoined compled on Manassas will likely be called the Translational Sciencr Research Complex.
Building I will continue to focu on cancer research from the collegesof medicine, pharmacy and UTHSC officials are now applying for $10 million-$15 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to completr the CRB’s fourth The space would be converted from shell space to laboratories that Rusty UTHSC’s vice chancellor for research, says could creats 30 new jobs and retain 25 The yet-built Building II will focus on researcb relating to cardiovascular diabetes and cancer. When the CRB opened in it was the first new building to be built on the UTHSC campus in17 years. The new Collegde of Pharmacy building is now under construction at theBioworkes campus.
It is the first mostly state-funded projecty to be built for UTHSC in20