The 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Regents were expected this week to approve the design for the new 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility.
To be completed in 2004, the six-story, $95 million building will be located just north of Tupper Hall in the Health Sciences Complex on the campus’s west side.
It will feature state-of-the-art research laboratories, and house the new 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis Genome Center and other research and administrative units.
"This is the first major building to be added to the health-sciences district in many years and sets the tone for a number of other facilities to go up in the next decade," said campus architect Robert Strand.
In other genomics news, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis today will host a group of French scientists visiting the U.S. to study the development of multidisciplinary centers in genomics. The group earlier visited Harvard and Stanford universities, the University of Washington and 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Berkeley.