Plans
Trinity and Biosciences
Entrance from Pearse Street.
The future of life and biomedical sciences in Trinity couldn’t be brighter. The construction of an ambitious 29,000-m2 TCD Biosciences Development has started. This facility, due to open in early 2011, will accommodate Trinity’s Institute of Immunology, a Centre of Excellence in Cancer Drug Discovery, expansion of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and TCD’s Bioengineering Centre. It will house all of our preclinical medical training and researchers from the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science, Biochemistry and Immunology, Chemistry and Engineering. These scientists will be integrated and will collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment to challenge convention and push the boundaries of discovery in the best tradition of Trinity College Dublin.
In a departure for an academic institution, researchers will work alongside industry in industry-academic collaborative and commercial labspace. Coinciding with the tercentenary of medical education in 2011, Trinity is blending the best of the past for the brightest of futures.
The build will accommodate around 1,000 researchers by 2013.
Funding
Estimated building cost is €131m. A major campaign is under way to raise funds for the building. Please see Get Involved for more information.
Status
- Planning permission granted
- Tender for the construction completed: PJ Walls selected
- Builders came on site in May 2008