Center for Collaborative Research to Open in 2009

NSU is planning to build Florida’s largest wet-lab research facility. The Center for Collaborative Research, which will open in 2009, will cost more than $50 million to construct and have an additional $5 million worth of research equipment, in addition to our in-place lab inventory.

The 208,000-square-foot building on NSU’s Fort Lauderdale-Davie campus, will be a state-of-the-art, cooperative interdisciplinary center for medical, pharmaceutical, dental, and oceanographic research.

The CCR will house one of the largest wet lab research facilities in Florida. The wet lab will be a home-base for applied health care research and medical informatics. Researchers will collaborate within this advanced environment to investigate pharmaceutical synthesis, cancer therapy, human stem cell research, biomaterials, wildlife DNA, forensics and ocean biomaterials.

Located just east of NSU’s Health Professions Division, the CCR will be home to the Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute for Cancer Research, Florida LambdaRail, information and technology services, investigators from the Health Professions Division and Oceanographic Center, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The federal agency is partnering with NSU, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Florida to promote scientific cooperation for the Greater Everglades Restoration Project, the largest public works program in U.S. history.