ST. LOUIS – Washington University in St. Louis has plans to transform the historic Goodwill complex into a startup hub for bioscience companies.
The $100 million project, known as Catalyst: Powered by WashU, will include a renovated seven-story building with a new four-story addition. According to the university, it’s designed to provide lab, office, and collaboration space for mid and late-stage start-ups in the heart of the Cortex Innovation Community.
Doug Frantz, the university’s vice chancellor of innovation and chief commercialization officer, says that when they bought the building, they saw it as more than just property, seeing the potential to be able to bring on and retain world-class talent and innovation to the area.
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WashU also says C2N Diagnostics will serve as the anchor tenant. The Alzheimer’s diagnostics firm is leasing more than half the space of about 82,000 square feet for its headquarters and College of American Pathologists-accredited lab. The company has closely partnered with WashU researchers for years on blood-based tests for Alzheimer’s, one of which is already available in the U.S. and globally…