NCRIS funding - successful projects in brief

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