Lang
12/16/22
The University of Iowa has been awarded an $8.2 million grant from the state of Iowa to enhance the growth of bioscience research and economic development on campus.
The grant money will be used to enhance existing space, thereby avoiding the construction of a new building. UI officials say as a result, the school will minimize the need for new operational costs while creating commercial wet lab and innovation space for economic development.
A wet lab is laboratory space equipped with appropriate plumbing, ventilation, and equipment to allow drugs, chemicals, or other types of matter to be analyzed and tested.
Once approved by the Board of Regents, the UI, in collaboration with the state, will renovate space in the south tower of the old College of Pharmacy building to enable faculty from across campus to explore the applications of their research. The funding also will help to build out the top floor of the new College of Pharmacy building. The new top-floor space will allow existing College of Pharmacy research faculty who have labs in the old pharmacy building to be relocated closer to their colleagues.