Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson returned to Madison Friday to celebrate the groundbreaking ceremony for the $65.9 million Health Sciences Learning Center.
The new facility, on the west end of the UW-Madison campus near University Hospital, is scheduled to open by 2003.
The former governor, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report, spoke of his time at the National Institutes of Health learning about stem-cell research with UW-Madison developmental biologist James Thomson.
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'The beautiful thing is UW-Madison is in the catbird's seat to be able to bring it all together,' Thompson said.
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