Regents approve renovation project in Medical Science Buildings

ANN ARBOR—University of Michigan Regents, at their July 15 meeting, approved the proposed renovation in the Medical Science Buildings 1 and 2 for the Bioinformatics Program.

“In an effort to support the rapid expansion of the Medical School‘s bioinformatics research and education, the Bioinformatics Program intends to recruit and support a critical mass of investigators,” said Robert Kasdin, U-M executive vice president.

“These investigators will focus on defining the intellectual constructs of this emerging discipline, developing the next generation of bioinformatics tools, expanding the range of biological applications that can benefit from the fruits of the genome sequencing projects, and educating the next generation of bioinformatics scholars. This program will be a catalyst of cooperative interactions in bioinformatics between the biomedical and computational sciences.”

The proposed renovation project is “the first stage implementation and will modify approximately 2,200 square feet of existing space in the Medical Science Buildings 1 and 2 for the core computation facility and a part of the total research space requirements of this new program.”

The project is estimated to cost $750,000.

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