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GE Healthcare signs on to build nuclear medicine facility in Adelaide alongside SAHMRI, new RAH
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ADELAIDE'S jockeying to be a world centre of health excellence takes a double leap forward today with healthcare giant GE Healthcare signing on to create a nuclear medicine facility on the embryonic North Terrace biomedical precinct.

It comes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Premier Jay Weatherill today open the $200 million South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) building as the first of a series in the biggest health and biomedical greenfield site in the southern hemisphere.

Along with the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and new buildings housing university teaching and research facilities the precinct is primed to bring research dollars and brains to Adelaide.

SAHMRI already has won more than $18 million in research grants this year and is ready to build on the reputation for excellence in SA research, with a strong emphasis on turning academic ideas into cures and treatments which also will return money to South Australia.

Health Minister Jack Snelling said a new five-year agreement had been reached between the State Government, SAHMRI and GE Healthcare which would cement the state's growing reputation as a leader in health research.

The deal will see training and education program for nuclear medicine and biomedical engineering and collaborations focusing on oncology and neurological, although no figures on the amount involved or where it will be housed has yet been released.

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"We want South Australia to be one of the world leaders in health-related research," Mr Snelling said.

"It is an ambitious goal but one we think is possible and this announcement is a major step forward in having South Australia's health industry leading the pack.

"This year alone SAMHRI has attracted over $18 million of new investment into South Australia and agreements like the one we have signed with GEHC only increase that investment potential.

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"We are in the process of building the largest health and biomedical precinct in the Southern Hemisphere - the health industry is a growth industry in South Australia and we want to keep it.

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As part of the deal GE Healthcare also has committed to hosting an international scientific conference in Adelaide each year, putting an international focus on the city.

SAHMRI executive director Professor Steve Wesselingh said a successful working relationship has already been established with GE Healthcare through the commissioning of the first cyclotron in South Australia, housed in the new SAHMRI building.

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"Next month our research teams will begin moving into our new flagship research facility, where we will house and run the cyclotron," Prof Wesselingh said.

"We will work together to develop a world-class training and education facility for nuclear medicine and biomedical engineering technology.

"This will enable us to build a South Australian-based workforce that will help drive the creation of the next generation of healthcare technology.

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GE Healthcare also is evaluating a Bio-analytical Centre of Excellence at the North Terrace precinct.

Honey of a City wrote:@ Monotonehell.

Don't worry about the naysayers over at Adelaide Now. They're just a bunch of trolls from a certain political party who buzz around that site like a bunch of blowflies around a cowpat.
This city is rocking. This building is awesome. The lights on top of the building are flashing tonight - compliments the lit-up Adelaide Oval and the Convention/Festival centres beautifully. As a community we've got a lot to be proud of right now....with heaps more to come.

SRW wrote:Will be interesting to see if Tony Abbott reaffirms Commonwealth funding for the next two planned facilities of our emerging health precinct while here opening the first, given this funding was first secured as sweetener for signing up to the Gonski reforms that his Minister Pyne is now determinedly tearing apart.

Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, has the potential to be a living laboratory for experiments in green urbanism.

Adelaide is on a trajectory to become an ecologically sustainable city but it needs more outstanding green architecture and low-carbon precincts.

rhino wrote:Wow Xara that second shot is really something! Looks like a scene from a science fiction movie.