Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Kansas Bioscience Authority gives $26M to KU Medical Center - Wichita Business Journal:

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million in investments Monday, with more than half dedicated to addinbg cancer research space at the Medica l Center inKansas City, Kan. Included in the investmentse the KBA detailed in a releasesis $26.4 million to assist with the $50 millio renovation of the Wahl/Hixon Research Complex at KU Med. According to the bioscience authority, the proposes using the money to renovateeroughly 170,000 square feet to house 37 cancer The Cancer Center has said the renovationb is necessary to help advanc its efforts to earn designation. In this the KBA board also included $250,000 for research at the Cancet Center to develop drug candidates that target cellas thatstart tumors.
The board, meeting in also approved the authority’s first two centersx of innovation, which aim to draw on the strengths of highee education and industry to bringy products tothe marketplace. The two which both involve KUand , are the and the . Also the board awarded $3.25 million for thre years in matching money fora wet-labb incubator at the University of Kansas. The incubator is expected to facilitate growth of the bioscience industry in Douglasw County and supplement other existingy or proposed incubators in the Kansas Citymetro region.

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