With an emphasis on cancer research, the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison is designed to allow researchers to work with scientists from other disciplines, speeding the transfer of science to the people who will benefit from it.

Here's what's inside the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research:

• The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) will have administrative offices sharing the top floor of the seven-story tower with prostate cancer researchers. Breast cancer researchers will have the sixth floor; funding for prostate and breast cancer research space came from two $7 million federal grants
• Orthopedics and regenerative medicine and surgery researchers are on the fifth floor
• Floors three and four will be dedicated to researchers working on cancers affecting children and cancers of the blood, lungs, head and neck
• The second floor houses core laboratory resources and mechanicals
• Below ground, two floors provide a new home for the world-class programs in imaging and radiation sciences, important in moving research from the lab to the bedside
• The upper level is home to the UW Hospital and Clinics outpatient radiotherapy unit, where patients will receive diagnosis and treatment, connecting the cutting-edge treatments being done at UW Health and the research taking place at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research
• The medical physics department, along with numerous collaborators from the radiology department, will occupy the lower floor, which is specially structured to be vibration-free. With tools ranging from three-dimensional microscopy to a new, 30-ton cyclotron and linear accelerator for PET molecular imaging studies and research, activity on this floor includes the latest advances in medical imaging