# @bhamnow on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-10-23T21:31:07.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Bham Now (@bhamnow) — https://gondola.cc/bhamnow

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🏥NEW UAB MEDICAL BUILDING + GLOBAL IMPACT: After 3 years of construction, UAB’s brand-new Altec/Styslinger Genomic Medicine + Data Sciences Building is finally complete. Get all the details👇

🏙️The grand opening:
—The University celebrated the ribbon-cutting + grand opening of the new facility today
—This marks the 7th new or renovated facility to open on campus in the last 5 months
—This addition has been noted as “a symbol of Alabama’s commitment to the future of medicine”

📈The space by the numbers:
—175K-square-foot facility
—Space for more than 90 UAB researchers + their teams, with space to recruit an additional 30+ investigators

🔬Research initiatives include preventing + managing chronic + rare genetic diseases such as:
—Neurodevelopmental conditions
—Cancer
—Diabetes
—Addiction

🌎Global impact:
—The new facility “will drive innovations that improve lives locally + worldwide + position UAB + Alabama as global leaders in precision medicine + data sciences,” according to Dr. Ray L. Watts, M.D., President of UAB

📍Along 7th Avenue South between 19th + 20th Streets

Are you excited about this new development? Let us know in the comments👇

#breakingnews #uabmedicine #medicalnews WC

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