Neuer Swiss TPH Hauptsitz in Allschwil eröffnet

Renato Mösch (Architect), Conradin Cramer (Cantonal Councillor, Basel-Stadt), Martina Hirayama (State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation), Jürg Utzinger (Director, Swiss TPH), Monica Gschwind (Cantonal Councillor, Basel- Landschaft), Nicole Nüssli-Kaiser (Mayor of Allschwil), Andreas Burckhardt (Chair, Board of Governors of Swiss TPH), Marcel Tanner (President, R. Geigy-Stiftung), Nicole Probst-Hensch (Head of Department, Swiss TPH), Philip Kunz (Architect), Torsten Schwede (Vice President for Research, University Basel), Stefan Mörgeli (Project Leader New Building, Swiss TPH) - On Friday, 1 April 2022, the new headquarters of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) officially opened in the BaseLink site, an emerging life science cluster in Allschwil. Around 700 employees and students will now work, research and study in the new building designed by Basel architects Kunz und Mösch. More than 300 guests attended today's inauguration from the areas of politics, business and science, as well as from the local neighbourhood in Allschwil. In recent months, the new Swiss TPH headquarters has been filled with staff and students who now work in modern, multi-space offices and state-of-the-art laboratories, accompanied by seminar rooms, a library and cafeteria. Today, Martina Hirayama, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Cantonal Councillor Conradin Cramer (Basel-Stadt), Cantonal Councillor Monica Gschwind (Basel-Landschaft) and the mayor of Allschwil, Nicole Nüssli-Kaiser, officially opened the building.