Academic Quarter Future Developments
Work is already well underway, and approximately £15M of funding is being sought for the next development on this element of the Campus, the Translational Research Building. This building will embody the ambitions of the broader Campus through co-location of academic, clinical service delivery and business activity.
This building, the spiritual home of the Newcastle BRC centre, will provide ground floor facilities to support innovative new multi-disciplinary clinics for older people. Above these will be further laboratories for the Institute for Ageing and Health’s growing biogerontology and associated activity. On the second floor will be space for businesses wishing to work closely with the science of the IAH.
The building will also provide much needed multidisciplinary mixing and social space to support the operation of the academic quarter as an integrated whole.
It is hoped that this building will be in place by the end of 2011. Further space will become available for expansion in due course, but no firm decisions have yet been made concerning further development of the academic quarter.
