M2GEN Research Facility
Design-Build Project
Tampa, Florida  Client: M2GEN RS&H Role/Responsibility: Master Planner, Programmer, and Architectural Designer |
 Project Description: This 100,000-gross-square-foot research building for M2GEN is collaboration between the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and Merck & Co., Inc. The M2GEN mission is to “develop and deliver targeted, personalized cancer care, thereby providing the right drugs to the right patients at the right time, with potential to substantially improve responses to drugs and cancer cures, and speed FDA drug approvals.” RS&H served as the Master Planner, Programmer, and Architectural Designer for the design-build team. The facility will house two primary activities: bio-repository functions (tissue processing and tissue banking) and data archiving and analytic functions (IT, informatics, etc.). The laboratories include clean room processing modules, histology, and microscopy suites and cryogenic storage facilities. The project scope includes the initial research building and site work with potential future phases for additional significant research buildings on the new Moffitt McKinley Campus in Tampa near the Moffitt Cancer Center. The project is designed to earn LEED Silver certification. |