Bionics Institute
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Mental Health Research Institute
Hanson Institute and Centre for Cancer Biology
15th May, 2013 Australia’s medical research institutes breathed a sigh of relief as medical research was saved from the cutting board in this year’s federal budget. Recent delays in medical research funding and cuts to the university sector had medical research institutes on high alert. [Read more]
11th April, 2013 AAMRI President, Prof Brendan Crabb, comments in the Australian Financial Review today on NHMRC funding delays that will result in a $70 million funding black hole and a cash flow deficit of $140 million for the medical research sector. [Read more]
5th April, 2013 AAMRI has welcomed the release of the McKeon Review of health and medical research. "The McKeon Review provides a timely and much needed blueprint to guide the government's investment in health and medical research to meet the huge challenges that our health and hospital system will face in the next decade,” said Professor Brendan Crabb. [Read more]
3rd April, 2013 AAMRI President, Professor Brendan Crabb, comments on the McKeon Review recommendation to shift NHMRC grants to a standard of five years in today's The Australian. [Read more]
8th March, 2013 In today's The Age, Australia's medical researchers have called on both sides of politics to adopt the advice of the McKeon review, which would boost research spending and revolutionise the way funds are allocated. [Read more]
4th March, 2013 AAMRI President, Professor Brendan Crabb, discusses with the Herald Sun how Melbourne now leads most of the world in research, only narrowly sitting behind the top tier of Boston, Washington and London. [Read more]