Western University’s Board of Governors approved plans last week for a Bioconvergence Centre. This 383,000 square-foot facility will provide space to bring together biology researchers and those from other fields including medicine, engineering and computational sciences. The facility will contain adjacent wet and dry labs, advanced equipment, and will be home to more than 570 researchers. Western VP Academic Florentine Strzelczyk explained that as Canadians face increasingly complex health challenges, there exists a problematic gap between “discoveries and reaching the market and patients.” “Western’s Bioconvergence Centre is designed to close that gap,” concluded Strzelczyk. Construction on the facility is expected to start in 2027.
