MSU’s Holland lab brews up desire

Pfizer’s donation of its former lab in Holland has MSU professors and researchers in awe as they tour the facility and comtemplate the possibilities. 140,000 square feet of lab space is just the jumping-off point for future discoveries.

A dozen Michigan State University professors and researchers took their first peek Thursday at the $50 million Pfizer laboratory that will become MSU’s bio-research and commercialization center in early 2008.

Eyes lit up as the group entered the pilot plant, the jewel of the 140,000-square-foot high-tech laboratory.

“If I look at my lab space, this space is much, much better,” said Ofoli, an associate professor in the MSU Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

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