USC’s Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine will open a new “smart” facility with advanced wireless technologies in Silicon Beach later this quarter.

Construction of the building at 12414 Exposition Blvd. is underway, with a targeted opening date of late this winter.

The Ellison Institute declined to give the building cost in its Jan. 6 announcement, but said funding for the building was coming from the $200 million donation to USC that Oracle Corp. founder and billionaire Lawrence Ellison announced in 2016.

The 80,000-square-foot, three-story building will house interdisciplinary cancer research laboratories alongside a cancer treatment and wellness clinic. The facility will also have an auditorium and test kitchen. It is also expected to host students and community members for tours to observe research in the labs.

AT&T Corp. is supplying the telecommunications technology to power the facility, including 5G, multi-access edge computing and artificial intelligence features. This will allow for the setup of connected sensors to track patient-staff interactions and for wireless coverage with enough capacity for thousands of users simultaneously.

“Cancer touches us all, and our hope at the Ellison Institute is to change the course of this disease by the way we approach it,” David Agus, founding director and chief executive officer of the Ellison Institute, said in the announcement. “Our collaborative environment and interactive care clinic offer a different healthcare experience for patients, physicians and researchers.”

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