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Ground broken on Institutes for Discovery

May 3, 2008 By WRN Contributor

State officials and major donors break ground on the new Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

The facility on the UW-Madison campus will focus on the fields of biotechnology, health sciences, and stem cell research. Governor Jim Doyle says it will help make Wisconsin a leader in those areas, which he expects to become vital to the US economy in the coming years. Doyle wants to capture 10-percent of those markets by the year 2015.

The cost to build the $150 million facility is being partially covered by a $50 million donation from UW alumni John and Tashia Morgridge. John Morgridge says the project is a great demonstration of how the community at large can come together with private money to create a great research institution.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the state are covering the remaining costs of the facility. The Institute is expected to be completed by 2010.

AUDIO: Andrew Beckett reports (MP3 1:10)

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