Today latest scientific update is hi-tech laboratories and technical spaces are in high demand from life sciences organizations developing next-generation health, biotechnology, and scientific innovations.
Demand is coming from a growing sector of start-ups, scale-ups, and a variety of new health science organizations—not just the traditional large research institutes.
As a result, there is an increasing need for new scientific and technical space developments that can cater to flexible usage, shared and leased space, and foster collaborations with health, science, and technology innovators.
The Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct (known as the Precinct or the GCHKP) is a beacon for these types of organizations, offering a broad range of technical facilities in a collaborative innovation community. Facilities within the Precinct include clinical and biomedical laboratories, highly secure PC3 containment labs, industrial and engineering labs, specialized micro and nanotechnology clean room facilities, and advanced 3D printing and design laboratories.
There is space available for further developments to meet demand—for developers of additional specialist and technical spaces, as well as for the offices, collaboration spaces, and services around them.
Within the GCHKP, the remaining development-ready land and lease-ready space are within Luminal, the final development stage of the Precinct, and the dedicated location for health and science businesses wanting to join the wider innovation Precinct.
Read on to find out more about the world-class facilities already within the Precinct open for access inquiries from tenants, and external commercial and industry partners.
Each of these is at the cutting edge of health science and innovation and supports a wide range of life science organizations.
And there is space for more.
Spotlight: Adapt
Adapt is a one-stop-shop for hi-tech design, with advanced 3D printing technologies involving multiple metals, polymer, and bio-printing capabilities.
Adapt (Advanced Design and Prototyping Technologies Institute) is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of next-generation medical technologies and advanced manufacturing across industries, including Spacetech.
As a flagship facility of Griffith University’s, adapt offers a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment and facilities that integrate Griffith’s R&D equipment to enable advanced design and prototyping.
Their 3D design and printing are one of the most exciting, future-forward innovations within adapt.
Referred to as ‘Additive Manufacturing’ (or AM) for medical devices, this technology allows health professionals to accelerate the pace of innovation, to improve patient care faster.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, adapt 3D printers were used to help make protective equipment for frontline health workers across Australia.
Today, they have been used to print cellular nerve bridges to help develop a treatment for spinal cord injury, and many more complex, cutting-edge medical interventions designed to help patients.
Adapt also facilitates access to nanotechnology equipment, and computer-aided design (CAD) suites for bioengineering work, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence.
Spotlight: Institute of Glycemic
The Institute for Glycemic has R&D labs that lead to the discovery of drugs, vaccines, and advanced diagnostics.
The world-class teams conducting research at the Griffith University’s Institute for Glycemic lead the discovery and development of next-generation drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for a range of infectious diseases, disorders, and cancers.
The institute has many labs focussed on microbiology and biochemistry, including a PC3 containment lab, where COVID-19 vaccine research recently occurred.
There is also a Phase 1 Malaria vaccine clinical trial underway currently.
The study of viruses requires strict biological containment facilities like the PC3 lab, to ensure infectious microorganisms are controlled and safely contained. This is the latest update for scientific article.
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