RESEARCH in Queensland has been given a boost with the opening of three new facilities which will be used in the study of plastic made from sugarcane, nano-chips to speed up computers and new DNA based bio-medicines.
01/06/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has released an expert committee’s evaluation of the BreastScreen Australia program and has said the valuable program will continue.
09/09/2009
A Microbial and Cellular Imaging and Analysis Facility has just been opened at the University of Technology, Sydney.
11/11/2009
The new Research Grants Management System (RGMS) is currently undergoing its final stage of live testing with researchers. The NHMRC expect the system to go live in the next couple of weeks to allow researchers to complete their profile and curriculum vitae (CV), with full roll anticipated for December 2009.
04/11/2009
THE WESTERN Australian Government has announced seven new research programs to receive funding as part of the Swan Canning Research and Innovation Program.
25/03/2009
The University of Queensland (UQ) received $1.66 million in funding from the Federal government's Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) scheme.
03/12/2009
The Australian Government plans to set up a fund to be specifically allocated to stem cell research that may lead to treatments and cures for conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
02/06/2010
QUEENSLAND has announced it will host the newly established Australian Future Forensics Innovation Network (AFFIN).
15/10/2009
University of Queensland (UQ) research into environmentally and economically sustainable production of sugars and ethanol biofuel has helped Australian-based company CSR Sugar (CSR) sweeten a deal with agricultural research giant, Syngenta.
22/01/2010
Some of Queensland's health and medical research institutes now have access to a $30 million venture capital fund under a new agreement brokered by the State Government.
26/10/2009
Commercialisation Australia will help 21 new Australian innovations develop from research ideas to commercialised products and services, including anti-cancer therapeutics and technology to protect dolphins.
22/04/2010
The Federal Government has announced the successful grant applications under the 2009 round of the Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme (CCRS).
23/11/2009
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has announced that clinical trials involving animal to human transplantation (xenotransplantation) would be allowed to proceed, once stringent regulatory and surveillance frameworks have been put in place.
11/12/2009
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) and Glycon of New South Wales, Australia, are partnering to bring IDT’s products and services to researchers in Australia.
22/04/2010
A MAJOR collaborative research project focusing on protein analysis to unlock the secrets of multiple sclerosis was launched today by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler.
31/08/2009
The Federal government has announced that $487 million will be provided through the National Health and Medical Research Council to boost the nation’s health and medical research effort.
30/10/2009
THE 2009 New Independent Researcher Infrastructure Support (NIRIS) Awards have been presented to Australian researchers investigating the anti-cancer properties of green tea and the use of physical exercise to relieve the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment.
10/08/2009
The University of Queensland (UQ) has received more than $360,000 in Government funding to further strengthen research linkages with China.
18/12/2009
Australian scientists are sequencing DNA from pancreatic and ovarian tumours as part of an international collaborative group focusing on novel cancer therapies.
16/04/2010
The University of Sydney has announced its receipt of funding from the Federal government's Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) scheme.
03/12/2009