Princess Alexandra Hospital is a proud partner of the Boggo Road Innovation Junction (BRIJ) which launched its global presence online this week.
BRIJ brings together elite expertise and facilities across the breadth of healthcare, biotech and environmental science across a 39-hectare innovation precinct which is powering global solutions.
Within the junction, more than a century of medical excellence meets cutting edge science producing world leading breakthroughs that benefit the globe.
Metro South Health Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Associate Professor Helen Benham said Princess Alexandra Hospital continues to drive collaboration with academia and industry as a hub for medical innovation.
“PA was the first Australian public hospital to become entirely digitised. There is a whole program of research that sits alongside that patient care and that research is being fed into many of our academic partners,” she said.
“That overall ecosystem where you feel everyone is moving towards big things is a really attractive attribute for people wanting to work within PA, and part of the BRIJ partnership.”
The physical as well as the shared connections between the individual organisations are becoming seamless, creating a feeling of being in the middle of an incredible and exciting hub of research.
General Manager BRIJ, Trent Munto said that more infrastructure is coming online within public transport which will see this area become a destination, not just part of their journey.
“BRIJ sits at the beating heart of these partnerships and is the location that will likely experience the most growth we’ve seen for the innovation economy in Queensland.”
PA Hospital and the greater Metro South Health is proud to be part of such an exciting step in collective collaboration.
By the numbers:
Everyday, more than 13,000 scientists, students, clinicians and entrepreneurs collaborate across the breadth of the BRIJ driving discoveries from bench-to-bedside.
BRIJ is driving Brisbane towards a $275bn economy by 2041.
BRIJ includes industry leaders in the Brisbane Knowledge Corridor:
CSIRO; Translational Research Institute; ENTRI; The University of Queensland; Griffith University; Queensland University of Technology; SANOFI; Mater Research; Patheon by Thermo Fisher Scientific; Department of the Environment, tourism, science and Innovation; Department of Primary Industries; Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning; Queensland Health; Queensland Chief Scientist; Metro South Health HHS; Princess Alexandra Hospital; Queensland Investment Corporation.
Learn more: BRIJ