William A. and Ami Kuan Danoff Life Sciences Laboratories
Location: Jewelry District
Architect: TenBerke & Ballinger
Contractor: Suffolk
Anticipated Completion: Spring 2027
Brown has bold aspirations to develop an integrated and comprehensive biomedical ecosystem where innovations can move seamlessly from research and discovery to translated solutions that have direct, real-life impact for patients and communities. Central to this vision is a new research facility where Brown’s exceptional faculty, students, and staff will work together to tackle some of the most daunting challenges facing human health globally. Home to biologists, engineers, physicians, scientists, computer scientists, entrepreneurs, and students, the new laboratory building coupled with a culture of innovation and key partnerships will allow for translating discovery to real-world impact to influence human health outcomes. The program developed for the project includes research space for up to 75 PI’s in six major program areas, wet and dry computational labs, research cores, lab and office support space, state-of-the-art rodent vivarium, and ground floor clinical human trials suite, convening space, and retail. The project is currently moving into final construction documents with an anticipated construction commencement date of the summer of 2024, and a public opening in early 2027.
The William A. and Ami Kuan Danoff Life Sciences Laboratories, a design-build project, in collaboration with Suffolk Construction, TenBerke Architects, Ballinger Associates, Stimson Associates, and BR+A, is a new 300,000 sf, 7-story facility that will provide state-of-the-art labs and workspace for interdisciplinary research in brain science, cancer, and biomedical engineering, among other disciplines. Situated opposite Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence’s Jewelry District, the Danoff Laboratories are poised to catalyze breakthroughs in research on most important challenges facing human health. The Danoff Laboratories will not only expand the University’s slate of cutting-edge research facilities, but also activate the public realm in a growing mixed-use neighborhood.
This program is in alignment with Brown's strategic plan Building on Distinction: A New Plan for Brown (2013).