A grand opening was recently celebrated for the new Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building for Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Designed to accelerate research in areas that include Alzheimer’s disease and brain tumors, the facility accommodates 1,000 faculty and staff, including 95 research teams. Additional space could be built out in the future to accommodate another 350 faculty and staff, including about 145 research teams. The $616-million, 11-story, 609,000-square-foot facility is one of the largest neuroscience buildings in the world. The building is located within the Cortex Innovation District on the eastern edge of the … Read more