With construction for a $48.5 million cyclotron lab between two research buildings next to UW Hospital set to begin this year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking the Board of Regents’ approval to add more space for patient treatment and research, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The university is requesting $13.5 million to add two floors to its original plan to house a new cyclotron — a particle accelerator that makes radioactive atoms that can pinpoint the location of cancer in a patient’s body — in a basement-level space.
The new floors would be used for future clinical space and labs.
The expansion will go to the Regents for consideration at a meeting on the UW-Madison campus on Thursday and Friday.
