On December 15, 2015, a newly built University science park for biomedicine was opened in the area of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Dúbravská road).
The ceremony was attended by the Chairman of the Slovak Academy of Sciences prof. Pavol Šajgalík, Government Commissioner for Research and Innovation of Slovakia prof. Jaromír Pastorek, Managing Director of Ministry of Education prof. Peter Plavčan, Director of the Bratislava region office Mr. Valerián Potičný, members of the SAS representatives and representatives of scientific organizations.
The University Park was built by the European Structural Funds and it has an area of more than 18,000 meters square and a space for over 500 employees from various scientific institutions. BioMedPark has a broad research scope and will be focused on research in the field of oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The key workplaces of the centre are the laboratories, but it also includes a menagerie of conventional breeding, and genetically modified animals for breeding and special immunodeficient animals. The building has several joint technology nodes targeted for genomic, proteomic, cytometry analysis and bioimaging method. An important part is the clinical research section that satisfies all the conditions for biomedical research under the Act on Health Care Providers - focusing on cardiometabolic disease and neuroscience. Finally, it is a radioisotope workplace also.
The new science park will use the existing infrastructure and in particular the concentration of the human research potential. The research process includes basic, clinical and translational / applied research. In the University science park for biomedicine, scientists from several institutes of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and also research teams from the Comenius University and the University of Economics have their workplaces. The project budget was € 39.5 million and construction took 27 months.
Illustrative photo, source: flickr.com/ Kevin Dooley
