ADELAIDE
Hub of collaboration
The $3.6 billion Adelaide BioMed City will be a new hub of innovation and collaboration, while attracting
national and international professionals, writes Anastasia Prikhodko.
Following a multi-billion investment in
Adelaide’s medical research sector the
city is soon to become one of the top
destinations for medical professionals.
16,000 delegates in the health sciences genre
in 2015/16, with 35 events, which will attract
15,000 delegates, currently scheduled for
2016/17.
“Adelaide’s BioMed City, as the largest
in the Southern Hemisphere, provides a
distinct advantage in attracting health and
life science conferences,” says Damien Kitto,
CEO of the Adelaide Convention Bureau.
“These figures are expected to further
increase with the opening of new sectors
within the BioMedical Research Precinct,
stage 2 of the Adelaide Convention Centre
nearing completion and the overall $6 billion
Riverbank precinct entering a new phase
of development at the Festival Plaza site,”
says Kitto.
“With the majority of this genre of events
being Association related, we’ve been able
to successfully align and partner with local
contacts based in the BioMedical Research
Precinct – specifically in SAHMRI (South
Australian Health & Medical Research
Institute).”
Adelaide hosted 45 events attracting some
The $231 million University of Adelaide
Health and Medical Sciences building, is due
for completion in early 2017; alongside the
University of South Australia’s $230m Health
Innovation Building, which is scheduled to
open in 2018.
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Further along Adelaide’s North Terrace, the
$2.3 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital is
nearing completion, with the first patients
expected to be treated there before the end
of the year.
Already home to SAHMRI, BioMed City
is also set to include SAHMRI 2, which
will house 500 researchers over 12 levels,
and the new $600 million Women’s and
Children’s Hospital.
“The BioMed precinct will address current
and future capacity constraints and surging
demand in the healthcare system by
improving the volume and quality of health
care services; training unprecedented
numbers of healthcare professionals and
providing a focal point for research of
international calibre into the most serious