Some 500 scientists from a variety of fields â?? medicine, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering and more â?? will work in a medical research building to open next week near UW Hospital, most of them focusing on cancer.
The seven-story, $185 million facility is the beginning of the planned Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, one of the largest projects ever in Madison.
The three-tower complex, to be finished by about 2015, will house 1,500 lab workers and cost more than $600 million, officials say. More than $10 million in state money has been spent; another $72 million is being requested, with a plan to seek $150 million more.