The opening of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is leading to $13.7 million in renovations at the
North Campus Research Complex at the University of Michigan.
The renovations, including taking down walls, creating more collaborative working space, and other changes, will create a workplace for hundreds of researchers.
The health care policy institute's mission is to use innovative and interdisciplinary research to enhance the health and well-being of local, national and global populations.
The institute is expected to become one of the largest of its kind in the nation, according to the university.
It is one of several projects at the North Campus Research Complex, which opened in January on the site of the former Pfizer pharmaceutical campus. There are 600 employees working at the 30-building, 174-acre property. The overall goal of the complex is to pair U-M scientists and faculty with private industry, government and non-profits to solve problems in the fields of human health, energy and advanced technology.
The institute is expected to open in coming weeks with 100 researchers, some of whom are already working at the NCRC. Eventually 500 researchers from a wide array of specialties will work there.
Source: Mary Masson, senior writer, University of Michigan public relations
Writer: Kim North Shine
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