 The Virginia K. Shehee Biomedical Research Institute is a 10-story, 160,000 square foot research facility with 56 state-of-the-art labs currently occupied by scientists and researchers from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. Opened in February 1994, the Institute houses more than 250 researchers, technicians and support personnel working to find cures to such diseases as stroke, cancer, arthritis and Alzheimer's.
In addition to laboratories, the Institute is home to the Biomedical Research Foundation’s administrative offices and the PET Imaging Center.
The laboratory facilities contain core research space for monoclonal antibody production, oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis, gene cloning, DNA sequencing, high performance liquid chromatography, tissue culture, positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and electron microscopy.
The Institute was built as a result of a $48 million public-private partnership from the following sources:
 Design and Construction Funds
Source: Federal Government - Research and Related Equipment
Source: State of Louisiana
- Land and Scientific Resources
Source: LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport
- Unrestricted and Endowed Operating Funds
Source: Shreveport-Bossier Community
- Endowments (2) for Eminent Scholars
Source: Private Community Hospitals and the Louisiana Endowment Trust Fund for Eminent Scholars
The Biomedical Research Institute was designed by Slack, Alost, Miremont and Associates.
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