Fort Collins, Colo.
Colorado State University (CSU) opened the $53 million Research Innovation Center in Fort Collins in May of 2010. Located on CSU’s Foothills campus, the 72,000-sf facility will support accelerated development of vaccines and therapeutics by co-locating researchers and private industry tenants. The two-story building houses biosafety facilities, wet laboratories, offices, conference rooms, and a vivarium for rodents. Designed to develop, test, and market vaccines for diseases such as cancer, West Nile virus, yellow fever, and plague, the research incubator is part of the Judson M. Harper Research Complex which houses the college’s Infectious Disease Research Center.
