Biopolis

Biopolis is a regional and international research and development centre located in Singapore for biomedical sciences. It is located in One-North near Dover and is in close proximity to the National University of Singapore, the Singapore Polytechnic, the National University Hospital, the Singapore Science Park and the Ministry of Education. This campus is dedicated to providing space for biomedical research and development activities and promoting peer review and collaboration among the private and public scientific community.

Phase One

Biopolis Phase 1 is a 185,000 m² (2,000,000 ft²) biomedical complex of 7 buildings that were constructed from June 2003 to March 2004. They are namely: Nanos, Genome, Helios, Chromos, Proteos, Matrix and Centros. Several government agencies, publicly-funded research institutes and research labs of pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies are located there.

Features

Amenities

For the general public, Biopolis has 8 shops, 4 restaurants, 4 cafes, a 300-seater food court, a fast food restaurant, a pub and a childcare centre.

function rooms

For its members, Biopolis has a 480-seater auditorium and 4 250-seater lecture theaters. It also has 13 meeting rooms.

Hotel Plans

There are plans to build a hotel nearby and a large number of private condominium units. The latter is controversial, attracting public concern whether such developments are needed, especially during turbulent economic conditions. Biopolis is further surrounded by nearby HDB housing estates.

Biopolis art programme

An initiative of the one-north arts program one-north Development Group (oDG) of JTC Corporation launched the first Biopolis Arts Program@one-north on the 14th May 2002. oDG supports the nurturing of the local and overseas arts community, by way of co-developing and funding the art programs in one-north. All major developmental projects in one-north will be encouraged to contribute towards the funding of significant artwork in-situ.

External links

• Official homepage