The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is planning to construct a $116.5 million medical research center.
The idea is to bring research from Dartmouth's medical school closer to the doctors who can use it to treat patients.
The Valley News reports that officials expect to break ground by June on the Williamson Translational Research Building.
Duane Compton, senior associate dean for research at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, says the goal is to use the building for translating discoveries made in research laboratories into things that go to better and safer care for patients. Lessons learned in the hospital can be fed back to the laboratories.
The center is being named for Peter Williamson of Lyme, a 1958 Dartmouth College graduate and neurologist and epilepsy expert who died from cancer in 2008.
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