On Sept. 20, 2017, a new era of medical discovery began when ground was broken for the MSU Grand Rapids Research Center. The $88.1 million, six-story, 162,800-square-foot facility includes research program spaces and five core labs that will benefit MSU College of Human Medicine scientists and researchers from MSU’s partnering institutions.

The facility will initially accommodate 33 principal investigators and their research teams, with space eventually to house 44 research teams. Twenty-five MSU College of Human Medicine researchers and their teams currently housed in the Van Andel Institute will move into the new research center later in the fall. MSU broke ground on the research center back in June 2015.

Areas of scientific study include Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, cancer, women’s health and infertility, as well as autism and pediatric cancers.