Northwestern opens largest biomedical building of any US university

Northwestern University has opened the largest biomedical academic research facility in the US, and the new 12-story building will add more than 58,000m² of research space to the university’s academic medical campus in Chicago. The school currently receives more than $700 million (£554 million) in external research funding annually, and it is estimated that the additional space and investigators will increase Northwestern’s grant awards $1.5 billion over the next decade.