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.
This is in addition to $21 million announced by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, during a recent visit to Tasmania, taking the total to $508 million.
The funding includes:
- 675 Project Grants, supporting individuals and teams conducting research into all areas of health, totalling $380 million
- 13 Enabling Grants, to ensure the future of essential national research facilities and resources such as the Twin Registry and brain and cancer tissue specimen collections, totalling $18 million
- 54 Career Development Awards, to enable early career researchers to establish themselves as independent researchers in all areas of health, totalling $20.7 million
- Research Fellowships for outstanding researchers — 75 new Fellowships, 19 sixth-year Fellowships (funding an extra year for existing Fellows) and six grants-in-aid — $53 million
- 16 Practitioner Fellowships, totalling $6.5 million, for researchers who combine their work as clinicians or in public health with essential medical research
- 55 Standard Equipment Grants, aimed at helping Australian institutions buy larger items of equipment to support competitively-funded health and medical research, totalling $9 million
- funding of $50,000 for Australia’s membership of the Human Genome Organization, an international organisation of scientists promoting international collaboration within the Human Genome Project.
Funding of $21 million will go towards the nationwide Partnership for Better Health Grants involving 27 projects that will help researchers work directly with health organisations so that research results can be better tailored to real world situations.
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