Ground-breaking ceremony for "Research Campus East"

From left to right: University's Rector Johannes Wessels , Christoph Hoppenheit (UKM), Dean Frank-Ulrich Müller, Minister Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Hugo Van Aken (UKM), Mayor Markus Lewe, District President Dorothee Feller and Theodor Windhorst (Medical Association). MFM - Erk Wibberg At a traditional ground-breaking ceremony today (January 16), building work began officially on a large-scale project worth millions at Coesfelder Kreuz - the so-called Research Campus East, where a large number of researchers from a variety of disciplines from Münster's Medical Faculty will be working in future. "A long-cherished dream comes true today," said Prof. Frank Ulrich Müller, Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster. "New, ultramodern research facilities are to be built here, where interdisciplinary teams and top-level researchers from the Faculty will find outstanding conditions for their work." The planners have been busy for years, working on the details of the campus which will later provide space for two large research units. The site will house the Medical Research Centre (MedForCe) and the Body & Brain Institute (BBIM), in the immediate vicinity of Münster University Hospital (UKM), a subsidiary of which - UKM Infrastruktur Management - will be handling the construction work. The MedForCe will be home to the Institutes of Virology, Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Faculty of Medicine. In future, on 3,900 square metres of floor space at the Body & Brain Institute, around 200 researchers will be investigating the interaction between the brain and bodily functions.