Professor Perry Bartlett has been presented with the 2015 CSL Florey Medal for his discoveries in the field of neuroscience, including breaking the scientific dogma that the adult brain can't change and regenerate. [ + ]

November has been a good month for the University of New South Wales, with UNSW researchers receiving recognition on both local and international stages. [ + ]

The Stafford Fox Medical Research Foundation will support the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in its development of new strategies for diagnosing and treating patients with rare cancers. [ + ]

The Australian Institute for Innovative Materials has launched the four-week online course 'Bioprinting: 3D Printing Body Parts', enabling people to discover how the world of 3D printing and biocompatible materials is allowing scientists to rethink approaches to health care. [ + ]

ANU has been awarded $2.5 million in the latest NHMRC funding round to host a new Centre of Research Excellence on Cognitive Health. [ + ]

Atop a remote mountain in the Chilean Andes, construction on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is about to begin. [ + ]

Medical technology companies Cardiora and Aravax have been awarded $9 million in venture capital funding from the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund to develop novel treatments for heart failure and peanut allergies respectively. [ + ]

The winners of the 2015 GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Award for Research Excellence will use the $80,000 award to continue their groundbreaking work on how the immune system identifies and fights disease. [ + ]

GE Healthcare's Life Sciences business and Emerson Process Management have announced a collaboration aimed at increasing productivity and improving efficiency in the production of biopharmaceuticals such as monoclonal antibodies and vaccines. [ + ]

CSIRO has successfully defended a key patent for RNA interference (RNAi) gene silencing technology after opposition in Europe. [ + ]

Christopher Pyne has announced Bill Ferris AC as the new chair of Innovation Australia, where he will perform a key role in the Australian Government's new focus on innovation. [ + ]

Phylogica has announced the inhibition of the mutant gene MYC — which many cancers depend on for their survival — in an animal model. [ + ]

The Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowships are being awarded to one male and one female outstanding mid-career scientist for the first time, in a move which will see gender equity embedded in the awards from now on. [ + ]

Enhancements to the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study will help drive research into the genetic causes of various diseases, as well as to build predictive models on the risk of disease. [ + ]

The Balnaves Foundation has awarded two Children's Cancer Institute Australia researchers $100,000 each to explore uncharted territory in childhood cancer. [ + ]