Montreal Heart Institute Expands Research Centre

The Montreal Heart Institute is initiating a $24-million project to expand and renovate its Research Centre in Montreal, Canada. Slated for completion in 2008, the project will expand the south block, known as the Pavillon Jean-Louis Levesque, by 6,125 square meters on three floors. A catheterization and research space will be built, and the first three floors of the south block will be reorganized. The project will accommodate the addition of new research laboratories in genetics; arrhythmias; regenerative medicine; vascular electrophysiology; mathematical modeling; and metabolomics. The animal housing facility, including that for transgenic mice, will be expanded and reorganized, as will the clinical research infrastructures currently housed in temporary facilities.