South Texas Research Facility

This ambitious new building, part of the University of Texas Health Science Center campus in San Antonio, will provide 200,000 sf of collaborative and inter-disciplinary research space for the Center’s growing research mission. It will combine under one roof research areas strategic to south Texas including aging, regenerative medicine, neuroscience, cancer, biomedicine, and counter bioterrorism.

The facility will primarily contain wet lab space, with roughly 20% of the area for dry labs. The Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (IIMS) will be housed in the building to meet the university’s goal of establishing a clinical and translational research institute. A National Center for Integrative Sciences (NCIS) will be part of the facility as well, to foster basic and translational research in metabolic biology, molecular therapeutics, and age related neurodegenerative diseases. 50,000 sf is dedicated to individualized molecular and immune therapies to treat children and young adults with cancer. The facility will include a new program in regenerative medicine that will take advantage of partnerships with the military and The University of Texas at San Antonio. Bioinformatics will also be housed here, to provide key computing support for developing medical informatics resources. The facility will also house a business accelerator to enhance economic development through commercialization and partnerships in the biotech industry.

Owner

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Architects

Rafael Viñoly Architects
Kirksey

Size

200,000 sf

Location

San Antonio, TX