Metro North Hospital and Health Board Chair Dr Robert Stable AO, Health Minister Cameron Dick, QUT Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology Group Associate Professor Mia Woodruff and 3D modeler Nick Green at the launch of the Biofabrication Institute at Herston.

Australia’s first biofabrication research institute will open on the world-class Herston Health Precinct next year.

Metro North Hospital and Health Service and Queensland University of Technology have partnered to create the hospital of the future with the new Herston Biofabrication Institute.

The institute will work closely with clinicians, patients and researchers to manufacture patient-specific tissue to replace or patch broken bones and cartilage and in the longer term new organs for transplantation.

This world leading first-of-its-kind institute will offer additional education, training, research, entrepreneurial and clinical opportunities.

Read more about creating the hospital of the future.