Granada Health Technology Park

Overview

The Granada Health Technology Park (PTS Granada) is one of the few technology sites specialized in Health in Europe. It covers an area of 625,000 m², housing its four main areas: Research, Teaching, Patient Care and Business Development.

106 companies and institutions are already up and running in the PTS, employing 5,561 people, 46% of whom are working on R&D activities. The Park has already created more than 1,500 new skilled and highly skilled jobs.

 

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

The first project promoted by the PTS was the business incubator, known as BIC Granada. This center is a space dedicated to the creation and consolidation of technology-based companies specializing in health and ICT. Over the last ten years, a significant number of innovative technology-based health sciences companies have been set up in the centre. These companies are constantly developing new products, based on almost fifty patents, and 67% of the investments they make are in R&D. Six of the companies have opened offices in other European countries and the United States.

The PTS favourable environment is also attracting global companies looking for cutting-edge infrastructure and special support for R&D. Abbott, MSD, Pfizer, Unit 4, Telefónica R&D or Rovi Pharmaceuticals are examples of such success.

Whether in the fight against Alzheimer’s, the development of new contact lenses to prevent eye diseases, the production of medical kits for detecting ailments, the creation of molecular structures for generating new cell tissues or the development of powerful management systems in bioinformatics, they all have their place in the Park. This capacity means that many of the companies in the park export their products and services to dozens of countries on every continent, expanding the Granada Salud (Granada Health) brand thanks to bodies such as Vircell, Servilens, Ibermutuamur, Master Diagnóstica or the Phlebology Institute.

 

PATIENT CARE

The new University Hospital exemplifies the PTS health care model, and its 8 floors will be home to some of the most modern health care technology.

 

TEACHING

The teaching area of the PTS is host to the new Medicine and Health Science Faculties, as well as the General Services building of the University. In addition, the Faculties of Dentistry and Pharmacy will be established there, completing a University Campus of about 7.000 students.

In teaching, CMAT is a center that is unique in Europe for the development and training of health care professionals, where the latest technologies in simulation and robotics are used.

 

RESEARCH

The PTS has place Granada at the forefront of biomedical research through specialized, prestigious centers

“López Neyra” Parasitology and Biomedicine Institute, in which research in immunology and pharmacology is performed to fight diseases such as cancer.
Functional Food Research and Development Center (CIDAF): here, work is carried out in collaboration with agro food companies to develop new foods and improve the quality of existing ones.
MEDINA Foundation, a result of the collaboration between the MSD laboratories, the regional government of Andalusia and the University of Granada, research is performed to the discovery of new drugs for the health systems.
Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GenYo): a space in which the multinational Pfizer participates, and where research is performed to genetics and the body’s response to new drugs.
Biomedical Research Center (CIBM), home to highly qualified Institutes in Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Nutrition and Regenerative Medicine, and which is also the headquarters of the Biobank of the Andalusian Public Health System.

Digital technologies.