Biomedical Research Facility

The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) biomedical research facility supports research that integrates biological information obtained from the study of genes and chromosomes (genomics), proteins (proteomics) and biological systems. The study of model organisms and disease models are integrated in this systems approach to biology and disease.

Research is also conducted in child development and applied neuroscience with a focus on diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s stroke, epilepsy, deafness and communicative disorders. The new Biomedical Research Center houses research programs in neuroscience, cancer biology, proteomics, and behavioral genetics, including laboratories for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Physiology, the School of Allied Health, and a Vivarium. Included within the Vivarium is a transgenic mouse facility as well as an ABSL-3 laboratory.

GLPM associated with Cannon Design of St. Louis to provide design assistance and engineering for this facility.

The total construction cost of $47,393,794 was well below the estimate.