New building at St. Louis medical school among largest of its kind

Washington University in St. Louis will spend more than $600 million to build an 11-story neuroscience building  that will be among the nation’s largest properties of its kind.

The university said Friday that construction will begin this month on the School of Medicine campus, allowing the university to bring together more than 100 research teams focused on brain and nervous system research.

Those teams consist of 875 researchers from the medical school’s departments of neurology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, psychiatry and anesthesiology.

They’re expected to move into the new building by late 2023