The University of Minnesota has committed to the construction of a new 60,000 square foot Lillehei Heart Institute research facility to further enhance clinical and basic science research and development. The world-class Cardiovascular research space will occupy part of, and share core resources in, a new 280,000-square-foot building designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary research. Construction will begin in 2011.
The construction of this new facility is part of a $292 million funding program approved by the state of Minnesota. Thanks to the Legislature’s commitment to keeping Minnesota a leader in biomedical advances, the University is constructing state-of-the-art research buildings in its Biomedical Discovery District, located on the north side of TCF Bank Stadium.
