John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building: A hub for scientific discovery

The hub of the Institute is the Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building, which opened in 2014. The building has six floors of research labs and a mix of wet and dry labs. Lower levels contain the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging.

A green design enables a gold level LEED certification that will contribute to a cleaner world. The architect of record is Rohrbach Associates, PC of Iowa City, IA. The design architect is Gwathmey Siegel and Associates Architects, LLC of New York, NY.