The new Life Sciences Building is a collaborative, technology-driven hub for fundamental, basic biomedical science, bringing together expertise from the School of Medicine, as well as from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing and the Whiting School of Engineering.
On the corner of Monument Street and Broadway, the new building will remain within the current Johns Hopkins campus footprint. The Life Sciences Building will create a new ecosystem for foundational, basic biomedical research centered around rapidly developing technologies in areas such as imaging, artificial intelligence and genetics, which are helping scientists make discoveries at a record-breaking pace.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Life Sciences Building
Project Statistics
LOCATION
East Baltimore, MD / United States
ESTIMATED completION
2029
TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE
554,000 GSF
program components
Chembio, AI, Immunology, Neuroplasticity, Vivarium, BLS-2/ABSL-2, Cryo-EM Suite, Large Dining & Coffee Bar, Conference/Collaboration Center, Loading Dock
TEAM
Kevin Sullivan
Principal
Sarah Lindenfeld
Principal
Michael Hinchcliffe
Principal
Andrea Love
Sustainability Leader / Building Scientist
Nikolas Pappastratis
Project Manager
Wesley Schwartz
Project Architect
Barry Shiel
Architect
Sasha Clark
Architect
Philippe Genereux
Architect
David Pawlak
Architect
Tom Simister
Lab Planner
Christie Layous
Planner/Programmer
Nick Berube
Planner/Programmer
Emilio Cardarelli
Architect
Garrett House
Architect
Olivia Humphrey
Architect
Lisa Kenyon
Architect
Xuancheng Zhu
Architect
Bohan Chen
Designer
Siyue Fan
Designer
Luisa Haller
Designer
Sarah Hopper
Designer
Ce Huang
Architect
Ashley Johnson
Architect
Junainah Ahmed
Designer
Kihun Kim
Designer
Michael Koliner
Designer
Matthew Mayberry
Designer
Ze Meng
Designer
Xichen Sheng
Architect
Lin Yang
Designer
June Yoo
Architect
Hyunsuk Yun
Designer
With over 500,000 gross square feet and six floors of lab and convening space, the building will be the hub for six newly developed “scientific neighborhoods” that connect scientists in similar fields and five “technology hubs” that help scientists maximize the potential of new scientific technologies to advance biomedical research. The neighborhoods and hubs, designed and led by Johns Hopkins scientists, will take shape alongside construction of the building.
Architects and scientists have worked together over the past year to design a flexible mix of laboratory space, with about 60% of lab space dedicated to experimental approaches and 40% of space for scientists focused on computation. There will be more the 1,200 lab benches for 920 scientists working in biomedical research.
The building will offer indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces for scientists, natural light throughout much of the building, a café and meeting space. In addition to a hub for faculty-led research, the Life Sciences Building will be home to hundreds of graduate students pursuing exciting biomedical research.