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Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI)
Vancouver, British Columbia
(in joint venture with Musson Cattell Mackey)

Size
128,352 sq.ft. (11,924 m²)

Construction Cost
$36.9 million

Completion Date 
Summer 2008

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CFRI

The Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI) is dedicated to world-class research spanning a wide range of children's and women's health concerns. It is the largest research institute of its kind in Western Canada.
 
The project involved development of the functional program and design for a 11,924 m² expansion to the existing research facility. It consolidates a variety of programs under one roof including Diabetes, Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases, Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Oncology, Health Innovation and Improvement, and Community Health Research. Research activities are organized by programmatic and cross-cutting themes including: clinical investigation, genetics, immunology, informatics, neurobiology and mental health and nutrition.

The centre supports wet bench laboratory research, dry laboratory and office-based research, clinical investigation and animal studies, conducted at Containment Level 3.