Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

A long corridor runs the length of the Knight Cancer Institute research building, which enhances the building's efficiency as well as facilitates easy collaboration between research groups. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

A long corridor runs the length of the Knight Cancer Institute research building, which enhances the building's efficiency as well as facilitates easy collaboration between research groups. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Tiffani Howard, Ph.D., program director of research strategy and operations leads reporters on a building tour of OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

A long corridor runs the length of the Knight Cancer Institute research building, which enhances the building's efficiency as well as facilitates easy collaboration between research groups. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

The lab areas feature plenty of natural light in OHSU’s 320,000 square foot Knight Cancer Institute research building, March 12, 2018. The facility, located on Portland’s South Waterfront, is slated for completion in late summer 2018, and will house up to 650 cancer researchers and staff focused on the early detection of cancer. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)