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The University of Utah is planning to renovate the George Thomas Building in Salt Lake City to house the Center for Cell and Genome Science. Construction will begin on the $75 million project in 2012. The completed facility will be named the Gary L. and Ann S. Crocker Science Center and will provide classrooms, laboratories, and administrative offices for the College of Science.

Rutgers University is building the $47 million Center for Integrative Proteomics Technologies on its Busch campus in Piscataway, N.J. Construction began on the 70,000-sf facility in November of 2009 with completion expected in October of 2011. The four-story protein research facility will bring together the BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, the Protein Data Bank, and branches of the National Institutes of Health’s Protein Structure Initiative structural genomics project.

West Virginia University was awarded $14.5 million in stimulus funding in March of 2010 to build a biomedical research facility in Morgantown. Located adjacent to the existing Health Sciences Center, the 22,000-sf project will include modern animal housing space and biosafety laboratories.

Albany Medical Center is planning to expand research laboratories at its medical college in Albany, N.Y. Supported by $9.1 million in stimulus funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Research Resources and $910,000 from the New York State Innovation Economy Matching Grant Program, the project includes the addition of two floors of research labs (totaling 20,272 nsf) to a three-story building currently under construction.

Monsanto broke ground in March of 2010 on a $2.4 million corn breeding station in Flora, Miss. The 26,000-sf facility is located in the Flora Industrial Park and will support research on corn hybrids. The project team includes developer Southeast Industrial Properties and general contractor Peoples Construction Corp.