NCRIS funding - successful projects in brief
Wednesday, 29 November, 2006
Bradley Smith, executive director of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS), has kindly provided a breakdown of the individual projects receiving money through NCRIS.
Evolving bio-molecular platforms and informatics
$12.35m - Genomics Australia
$16.15 - Proteomics Australia (includes Macquarie, Monash and QIMR)
$9.5m - Metabolomics Australia (UMelb, UQ, Aust Wine Research Institute, UWA/Murdoch)
$9.5m - Australian Bioinformatics Facility
$3.5m - Murdoch University Centre for Comparative Genomics
Integrated Biological Systems
$15m - Australian Phenomics Network -Monash/ANU with Walter and Eliza Hall, QIMR, Menzies Research
$15m - National Plant Phenomics facility - Adelaide University and ANU/CSIRO
$7.5m - 'Atlas of Living Australia'
Characterisation
$19.2 - National Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility
$7m - National Imaging Facility
$3.3m - National Deuteration Facility (ANSTO)
$18.2M - Australian Synchrotron - for first beam line
Fabrication
$41m - Australian National Fabrication Facility, comprising: $15m - Vicfab - 5 \Vic Unis/CSIRO
$11m - ANU/UWA $7m - UQ
$4m - UNSW
$1m - Macquarie
$1m - Wollongong/Newcastle
$2m - Uni-SA
Biotechnology
$19.66m - 3 facilities - UQ/UNSW/Monash-CSIRO - scale-up recombinant proteins
$7.62m - TGA licensed facilities in 5 states for human cell production
$7.72m - alternative fuels - QUT, Adelaide, Flinders, UNSW etc
Networked Biosecurity
$1m - project definition study for a National Biosecurity Network
$8.5m - upgrade animal health lab in Geelong (CSIRO)
$15.5m - additional biosecurity funding to be determined
Optical and radio astronomy
$19.2m - Mileura International Radio Array
$10.02m - Upgrade Anglo-Aus observatory - Siding Spring
$7.16m - access for Gemini telescopes in Hawaii and Chile
$1m - Australian contribution for design of Giant Magellan Telescope
$1m - Design and development stage - Pathfinder for an International Large Telescope (PILOT)
Integrated Marine Observing System
$55.2m - Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - UTas/CSIRO - supports a variety of subsidiary programs includes ARGO
Structure and Evolution of the Australian Continent
$27m - AuScope - continent scale 4-d data model. CSIRO/GA and 15 unis.
$27m - 15.8m - enhanced national geospatial reference system
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