Liverpool. $39 million research facility

Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, and NSW Minister for Health, Carmel Tebbutt, have given planning approval for the construction of the $39 million purpose-built Ingham Health Research Institute, at Liverpool Hospital, boosting plans to make the hospital an important hub for medical research and education. The world-class research facility will be funded by the Commonwealth Government and will bring together more than 200 researchers currently scattered across NSW into one modern, purpose built-building.

Liverpool. $46.9 million research centre

Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, and representatives from the Ingham Health Research Institute have signed a $46.9 million funding agreement at Liverpool Hospital to provide a new, four-storey state-of-the-art research centre through the Federal Government’s Health and Hospitals Fund. Ms Elliot said the centre would be the focal point of research in south-west Sydney, housing 340 researchers. The research groups associated with the institute created the medical emergency teams now used in hospitals around the world. They were also the first to discover the role of stellate cells in pancreatic cancer.