Moving into the building will be faculty and students from science, engineering and computing whose research focuses on molecules, cells, organisms, and populations as a composite of dynamically interacting systems and pathways, which together control the manifestation of disease and determine the state of health.

The building will provide state-of-the-art laboratory facilities that support genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, and nanomedicine in an interdisciplinary environment designed to accelerate discovery beyond the boundaries of current knowledge. The building will have space for research and laboratory instruction of approximately 85 faculty members, 425 graduate students, and several hundred undergraduates.

The building has 200,000 square feet of multidisciplinary research space to accommodate expansion of the Institute’s biomedical research enterprise. This facility will not only allow for enhanced partnership with researchers at institutions including Emory University Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, it will also allow for significant economic impacts through new research awards and commercialization of technologies developed within.