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Construction Begins On Rutgers' New Medical School In New Brunswick
The new Rutgers med school will be located across the street from the New Brunswick train station, in what is currently an empty lot.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — We already told you plans are currently in the works to have Rutgers, Princeton University, Hackensack Meridian and RWJBarnabas come together under one roof in downtown New Brunswick.
It will be called the New Jersey Innovation + Technology Hub — just "The Hub" for short — and it's being strongly pushed by Gov. Phil Murphy.
Now on Tuesday, Rutgers announced that construction will start this spring on the first of three buildings that will be part of the Hub, one of which will be the new home of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. It will also have public health labs.
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These three buildings will be called the HELIX (New Jersey Health + Life Science Exchange).
The HELIX will be located across the street from the New Brunswick train station, in what is currently an empty lot. It should be completed by 2026, said Rutgers.
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According to Rutgers, the 12-story building will have state-of-the art laboratories, offices, work and learning spaces "to foster research, treatment and business breakthroughs."
“Imagine: We will be educating new generations of medical students alongside cutting-edge laboratories and researchers – in the same space where we collaborate with our colleagues at Princeton and the two largest hospital systems in the state," said Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway Tuesday.
"It will be an epicenter of health innovation.”
Planning for the public-private complex began several years ago when Murphy first proposed "The Hub" in 2017.
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