With $87.5M lab, URI prepping to expand state’s biotech capability

Matthew McNulty

01/31/2025

WHAT COULD BE: This is a rendering of what the University of Rhode Island’s new biomedical building could look like along Flagg Road on the South Kingstown campus.  COURTESY DBVW ARCHITECTS

Some biomedical researchers at the University of Rhode Island may be working toward breakthroughs in cancer studies, environmental health sciences and neuroscience. But sometimes, they’re fighting for elbow room, too. URI President Marc B. Parlange says that with hundreds of students and faculty members using the limited amount of biotech labs on the university’s main

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