Palermo will be home to the largest biotech research center in Europe: Italy has published in the Official Gazette the 113 million Euro tender that will assign the construction works to build Fondazione Ri.MED’s Centro per le biotecnologie e la ricerca biomedica (Cbrb) in the town of Carini, 20 kilometers from Palermo.

The Center will host a structural biology laboratory, biomedical engineering research labs, neuroscience and molecular imaging laboratories, facilities for in vivo preclinical studies, vaccine development laboratories, equipment for the development of new regenerative medicine solutions.