Yesterday a ground-breaking ceremony was held at UAB to announce the construction of the new Altec/Styslinger Genomic Medicine and Data Sciences Building and the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation Conference Center. Governor Kay Ivey, Senior leaders from UAB, the Board of Trustees, the Styslinger family, and state government leaders attended.

The new 175,000-square foot facility will include space for computational research, research support, offices, administrative and scientific collaboration, and meeting spaces designed to meet the specific needs of genomics and precision medicine investigators and their programs. The building is an exclamation point on the focus of medicine in the state of Alabama.