Our building
“It is said that nearly two-thirds of all of the research output from Australia is lost in translation. We needed to do something about that. This building offers practical solutions to that.”
Our building
“It is said that nearly two-thirds of all of the research output from Australia is lost in translation. We needed to do something about that. This building offers practical solutions to that.”
Timeline
2003
The concept of a major research institute on the Princess Alexandra Hospital campus arose from the thinking of notable Queensland clinicians including Don Cameron, David Theile and Ian Frazer.
2006
Clinicians and scientists from the four founding partners – The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, Mater Medical Research Institute (now Mater Research) and Queensland Health – united to conceive a proposal that was submitted to the Queensland Government.
2007
The initial proposal was developed into a project design and received $354 million in funding from the Australian and Queensland Governments, The Atlantic Philanthropies, UQ and QUT.
2010
Sods were turned as work began on bringing the TRI vision concept to life.
2012
TRI Corporate move into the building in October with first researchers joining by December under the leadership of TRI’s founding Chief Executive Officer and Director of Research, Professor Ian Frazer and inaugural Chair, Dr David Watson.
2013
The then Governor-General of Australia, Dame Quentin Bryce, officially opened TRI on 10 October.
Multi-Award Winning
Recognised for its progressive development and the incorporation of both functionality and visual beauty, the TRI building has received a number of building and design awards.