A new research building at the state's medical school will allow researchers to work on rare and special diseases.

UMass Medical School announced plans to build a $325 million research building.

Chancellor Dr. Michael Collins says all labs at the school right now are full, and in order to expand, they need additional space.

There will be 77 principal investigators in the new building focusing on several different areas.

"We'll be bringing our gene therapy investigators together so folks who work on single gene defect diseases, like ALS or Canavan disease. We'll be bringing our molecular medicine department, which is actually the department where in which Craig Mello was housed when he got the Nobel Prize, we will be bringing them from the biotech facility here. We will be bringing all of our neuroscience investigators together, both neurobiology, neurology, and neurosurgery, they’ll be in the new building. We’re creating a new department in human genetics and evolutionary biology and those folks will also be part of the building,” said Dr. Collins.

A parking garage now standing on the site will be partially demolished beginning early next year.

The 350,000-square-foot building is due to be complete by the fall of 2023.