A look at the recent milestones in Connecticut’s bioscience initiatives.
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Oct. 2014
The Jackson Laboratory opened its newly constructed facility, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, an 189,000-square-foot building on UConn Health's Farmington campus.
2015
UConn Health opened its new 300,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Outpatient Pavilion on its lower campus offering primary care and specialty services in one location. Construction also included a completed 1,400-space parking garage for patients, visitors and employees.
April 2016
UConn Health will open its 381,309-square-foot, 11-floor new hospital tower with 169 beds at UConn John Dempsey Hospital. UConn Health will have a total of 234 licensed hospital beds. The project includes a new adjoining Parking Garage 2 that has been completed for 330 employee spaces and 35 spots for emergency department patients and visitors, and additional ambulance spaces. Also, the project included completed Garage 3 with 403 spaces for the public and staff.
In Progress
• Renovations are 75 percent complete modernizing 200,000 square feet of research floors and laboratories for more collaborative open lab spaces at UConn Health in its main building. Also, renovation will begin this summer for the main lobby, along with updates to cardiology and dental clinical spaces.
• An addition and renovations are underway to modernize academic locations as Bioscience CT calls for future expansion of class sizes at both UConn School of Medicine and UConn School of Dental Medicine. The addition includes a new 19,000-square-foot, team-based learning classroom addition. Renovations will also modernize existing classrooms.
• Incubator laboratory spaces have been expanded to increase research capacity and foster new bioscience business startups. The Cell and Genome Sciences Building at 400 Farmington Ave., now has a two story, 28,000-square-foot addition housing 32 new incubator labs.
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