Location: Fairway, Kansas
Year Completed: 2011
Size: 84,379 SF

HMN Architects worked with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) to renovate an office building in Fairway, Kansas. The building houses KUMC’s clinical and translational research programs. In addition to the Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (HICTR), this facility has clinical trials for cancer, as part of a university effort to achieve designation as a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center.

Both the cancer program and HICTR are part of a major national initiative to support and organize clinical research, so that discoveries made in laboratories and findings from clinical research are more rapidly translated into new treatments and healthcare practices. This facility consolidates clinical research activities and creates an environment that reinforces communication; simplifies human subject travels and appointments; and provides facilities supporting education and community involvement.