A medical researcher, Dr Michelle Tate, has received $8000 and a commendation in recognition of her investigation into the ‘flu virus’ from the Premier of Victoria.

A public health researcher, Dr Andrew Steer, has received a commendation in the 2011 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research. His investigations into the bacteria which causes rheumatic fever, pharyngitis and impetigo are changing policy at an international level.

A Melbourne researcher, whose research has received international attention, has received a commendation in the 2011 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research.

Dr Wen Qiu, who has researched how breast and ovarian cancers spread, has won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research 2011.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales have identified the molecular switch that kicks T cells into action using super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. [ + ]

Sage-N Research has signed an exclusive agreement with the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) to license technology for microbial identification.

Chemists from the University of Sydney have shed light on the sun's role in mixing up molecules, with implications for the extent that pollutants are dispersed across the Earth's surface and how quickly they are removed.

Funding by Woolworths will support the Primary Industry Centre for Science Education program that encourages high school science students to consider a career in agricultural science.

South Australian universities’ research projects have received $6.3m in funding to help combat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, develop a new treatment for cataracts and improve roadside and workplace drug testing.

Australian Government funding of $4.95m will assist Western Australian universities to partner with governments and industry to research the control of crop-eating insects, improve the communication of fire threat information and better understand the learning needs of rural and remote Indigenous vocational education students.

Managing endangered fish stocks, improving our personal security online and discovering how migration is changing the financial services industry labour market are amongst 55 Victorian university research projects that have received $14.45m in Australian Government Linkage Projects funding.

Queensland universities’ research projects have received a boost of $16.9m from the Australian Government. The universities are partnering with governments and industry to help stop cyberbullying, better understand the Great Barrier Reef and increase pre-flood warning times.

Australian Government research funding to the Northern Territory will help transform child protection services and improve safety for vulnerable Indigenous children.

Research by NSW universities into the likely impacts from the cane toad’s southern march, the development of needle-free vaccinations and reducing the toxic fumes that occur after blasting in mines will benefit from $19.7m in Australian Government funding.

$4m in funding will enable ACT universities to partner with industry and governments to reduce foodborne disease, make genetically modified (GM) and non-GM canola more drought tolerant and save the Grassland earless dragon from extinction.