The Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Mark Butler, today announced the awarding of over $7 million towards a range of innovative health and medical research projects through the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council Development Grants.
“Development Grants provide funding for the commercialisation of health and medical research projects to help get research out of the laboratory and into practical use,” Mr Butler said.
“These grants are helping nineteen medical researchers across Australia to translate the results of their work into marketable products that can improve people’s lives both here and overseas.”
The research projects being funded range from the development of an improved human skin substitute for burns victims and a revolutionary new therapy for promoting organ growth in premature babies, through to a treatment for epilepsy using electrical stimulation and the innovative use of lasers to close wounds in brain surgery.
“These projects highlight the enormous benefits that can flow from investing in health and medical research and the quality of research in Australia,” Mr Butler said.
Details of Development Grant recipients and project descriptions can be viewed on the NHMRC website
[http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/index.htm].
Media contacts: Lisa Sedgwick, Parliamentary Secretary’s Office, 08 8242 0827; Simon Tidy, NHMRC, 0422 008 512 or 02 6217 9190
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Australian Government:NHMRC press release
NHMRC title:COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDING FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS Publication date: 28 Jan 2010 Media contacts:Please see above Tell them you read it at Science Hub Australia first! (www.sciencehub.com.au)
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