About AMREPThe Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP) is a partnership between Bayside Health, Monash University, the Baker Heart Research Institute and the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health (Burnet Institute).
Completion of the $100 million precinct was achieved in 2004, six years after construction commenced. Deakin University and La Trobe University have also recently become partners in AMREP.
The AMREP initiative has enabled the four founding partners to greatly expand facilities and research activities and, importantly, to attract new research groups to the site. The recently announced merger of the Austin Research Institute (ARI) with the Burnet Institute will build a critical mass of scientists within AMREP in the fields of immunology, infectious diseases, immunotherapy and cancer from 2008.
The institutes / research groups currently located within AMREP are the Baker Institute, Burnet Institute, National Trauma Research Institute, Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Nucleus Network, Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, laboratories of the Monash University Central and Eastern Clinical School, laboratories of The Alfred Infectious Diseases and Neurosciences departments, and the Centre for Health Innovation. Also included within the AMREP complex are the Ian Potter Biomedical Research Library, the AMREP Education Centre facilities and the Precinct Animal Centre.
Although AMREP was conceived and developed as a new research precinct, it has evolved to encompass research activities carried out in all facilities on The Alfred campus. AMREP’s major strength is the ‘bench to bedside’ approach to research that is possible with the close proximity of the basic science laboratories of the research institutes and key Monash University departments to the hospital’s wards and facilities.
