The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has given $14.9 million to Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) to fund the expansion of its Bindley Bioscience Center, which is home to a range of cancer and life sciences research. The money has been awarded through a federal stimulus measure. It will enable a 29,000-sq-ft expansion of the facility, which will house investigators from the National Cancer Institute. Thirty to 40 new positions will also be created to carry out federally-funded research at the site. A release from Purdue states that 165 jobs will be created during the construction of the facility, which is expected to begin in August 2011 and completed by April 2013. 

"This major Bindley Bioscience Center expansion addresses a critical need for disease researchers from across multiple disciplines at Purdue, says Richard Kuhn, a biology professor at Purdue. "This also builds on the university's strength's in cancer research, drug discover and development, engineering, chemistry and instrumentation, and veterinary medicine with a disease research-focused, multidisciplinary facility for biomedical research."