Wayne State University officially broke ground Thursday on a $93 million addition to its life science programs, the Multidisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (MBRB). The 200,000-square-foot building will be constructed around an existing 130,000-square-foot 1927 Albert Kahn structure at 6187 Woodward Ave. that formerly housed a Buick-Pontiac dealership. Wayne State President Allan Gilmour noted that the focus of the MBRB will be on team science. Gilmour said no one knows what discoveries will be made in the new building, but significant ones will be made. "This will be the northern gateway to WSU," Gilmour said. "It will be a stunning introduction to Wayne State and this part of Midtown." The MBRB will provide space for about 500 researchers and staff and 68 principal investigators. Research in the MBRB will be arranged into thematic areas - cardiovascular disease; metabolic disorders such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity; systems biology; biomedical engineering; bioinformatics and computational biology; and translational behavioral science. Sylvie Naar-King, a professor and pediatric obesity researcher at Wayne State's School of Medicine, said the new building will allow better collaboration among researchers that are now in scattered buildings. A photo of the groundbreaking ceremony and maps are included.

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