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West Virginia University broke ground on a $22 million animal research facility in Morgantown in July of 2012. Located adjacent to the existing Health Sciences Center, the 22,000-sf building will provide biosafety laboratories and a rodent vivarium. The project is supported by $14.5 million in federal stimulus funding.

Colorado State University has broken ground for its new Equine Reproduction Laboratory in Fort Collins. The 12,000-sf facility will provide teaching space, microbiology and molecular labs, and exam rooms. The $5 million project will support research in equine diseases and advanced reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer. 

GenScript USA opened the first phase of its R&D campus in Nanjing, China, in June of 2012. Located in the JiangNing Science Park, the 765,000-sf project includes three five-story buildings and two two-story animal research facilities. The campus include a conference center, offices, and research laboratories with advanced equipment for gene synthesis, protein purification and characterization, antibody engineering, and drug assays. Ground was broken on the facility in 2009.

The Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology opened a 646,000-sf xenotransplantation research facility in May of 2012. Located in Daejeon, South Korea, the $135 million project will support animal research in organ transplants from miniature pigs to primates and the development of regenerative medicine therapies. The facility was developed in partnership with the Korea National Primate Research Center. The duration of construction was three years.

Animal health company Idexx Laboratories broke ground in April of 2012 on a $35.5 million expansion of its corporate headquarters in Westbrook, Maine. A 107,000-sf building will be constructed adjacent to Idexx's existing facility. Accommodating 300 employees, the project will allow Idexx to expand R&D operations. Completion is expected in August of 2013.