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University of Alberta Constructs Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases

Published 4/1/2008

The University of Alberta is constructing the $12 million Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases in its Environmental Engineering Buildings in Edmonton. The first phase of the project, which opened in December of 2007, consists of two renovated laboratories. Phase two is comprised of four additional laboratories housing researchers from the faculties of Science, Medicine & Dentistry, and Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences. The completed 23,000-sf, six-laboratory project will house 60 researchers and staff and is slated for completion by year-end 2008.