QUT research finds high cost in grant funding decisions
07 October, 2011The scientific health and medical research projects which receive government funding in any given year rely, to some extent, on 'chance' according to recent research by a Queensland University of Technology expert in health economics.
R&D tax incentive set to support Australian businesses
02 September, 2011Information sessions will be held to learn about the new government R&D tax incentive for businesses.
Australian Institute of Nanoscience to be built
02 September, 2011A donation from an Australian businessman has enabled the Australian Institute of Nanoscience to be built.
R&D tax credit wins support
26 August, 2011The R&D tax credit has been passed in Parliament to help businesses in every sector of the Australian economy transform and invest in the future.
Funding to commercialise new needle-free vaccine delivery technology
03 August, 2011OneVentures and Vaxxas Pty Ltd investment will enable Professor Mark Kendall of UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) to continue his pioneering research and development of the Nanopatch.
Stroke, cardio disease detection devices receive funding boost
19 July, 2011A lecturer from the University of Sydney has been awarded a $100,000 Microsoft fellowship to accelerate the development of electrical devices used to diagnose and monitor stroke and cardiovascular disease.
Gilead is swimming in the Medicines Patent Pool
14 July, 2011Gilead is the first company to have entered a licensing agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool in a move aimed towards increasing access in developing countries to drugs that treat HIV and Hepatitis B.
Parkinson’s research boosted with BioFocus/Michael J Fox Foundation collaboration
14 July, 2011BioFocus will perform fragment-based screening, assay development and hit-finding programs, to identify compounds that have the basis for a novel Parkinson’s disease diagnostic test.
New R&D tax credit will start in July
17 June, 2011Australian companies will become more innovative and globally competitive thanks to the new R&D tax incentive.
Innovation managers receive boost in funding
09 June, 2011Life sciences, information technology and medical research companies will receive a $60 million Australian Government investment to support start-up ventures.
Fresh Food Future program to boost agricultural science grads
01 June, 2011Funding 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.
SA universities research fights superbugs and treats cataracts
01 June, 2011South 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.
Boost for research into Indigenous education and control of crop-eating insects
01 June, 2011Australian 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.
Endangered fish stocks and insider e-threats amongst research funding for Vic
01 June, 2011Managing 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.
Funding for Queensland research into changing ecosystems
01 June, 2011Queensland 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.
