$55 million funding for biotechnology
22 October, 2010Premier John Brumby has launched a $55 million action plan to strengthen Victoria’s leadership in biotechnology, help in the fight against serious illnesses and create jobs across the state.
Anticancer research receives funding
20 October, 2010Scientists investigating the anticancer effects of a microRNA molecule have become the first in Western Australia to secure funding from a multimillion-dollar fund set up to help commercialise early-stage medical research discoveries.
M² building funding to secure future jobs
19 October, 2010The new M² building, part of the Materials and Minerals Sciences Learning and Research Hub at the University of South Australia, will foster Australia’s next generation of engineering, material and mineral science graduates.
Joint collaboration in glycoproteomics
06 October, 2010The Australian Proteome Analysis Facility, Macquarie University and Agilent Technologies Australia have announced a joint research collaboration in the field of glycoproteomics, to be led by Professor Nicolle Packer. The project, valued at over $100,000, draws funding from Agilent Technologies Australia and Macquarie University.
Putting our continent under AuScope
30 September, 2010Understanding the history of our continent will be made easier by a groundbreaking $43 million Australian geoscience project, AuScope.
ANU wins grant for HIV research
13 May, 2010A researcher from The Australian National University has won a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a new HIV vaccine that might also lead to vaccine breakthroughs for other major diseases.
Comments sought on $52m research collaboration program
23 February, 2010The federal government has released a discussion paper on the Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) program - the first of its kind in Australia - which will provide $52 million from 2011 to promote mutually beneficial collaboration between universities.
$38m to get new technologies working for Australia
22 February, 2010The National Enabling Technologies Strategy has been released. The strategy provides a comprehensive national framework to guide the development of new technologies.
Research funding implications from UWA intellectual property case
17 February, 2010Universities may have less money to fund research and may be less able to provide the expensive infrastructure that researchers require to undertake their research as a result of the outcome of a court case over intellectual property rights, according to Professor Alan Robson, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia.
Chemistry and computers combine for forensic identification
11 February, 2010Researchers at The University of Western Australia and the WA Police Service are part of an international team awarded an Australia Research Council Discovery grant of more than $400,000 to revolutionise the identification of skeletal remains by updating and combining new computer and chemical methods.
$1.42bn for higher education research
21 January, 2010Australian universities will receive federal funding for research and research training totalling $1.42 billion in 2010.
New R&D Tax Credit - exposure draft legislation
21 December, 2009Draft legislation following through on the government’s commitment to deliver a more generous, more predictable and less complex tax incentive by replacing the outdated and complicated R&D Tax Concession has been released.
The bionic eyes have it
15 December, 2009Two Australian research teams have been awarded $50 million to develop a bionic eye.
Female US researchers less likely to receive major career funding grants
01 December, 2009Women are significantly less likely to recieve major funding for scientific research in the US, according to a University of Michigan study.
Commercialisation help made simpler
01 December, 2009Commercialisation Australia will supersede the Commercialising Emerging Technologies program and will introduce a new, simpler form of assistance to companies seeking to take their ideas to market.
