21st May, 2013 Science is a highly competitive business. So measuring the impact of scientific research, meaningfully and objectively, is essential. AAMRI President, Professor Brendan Crabb, discusses the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and why the journal impact factor should be declared dead. [Read more]
17th May, 2013 An international declaration by more than 150 leading scientists and 75 scientific organisations, including AAMRI, is demanding a rethink of the role the 'journal impact factor' plays in the evaluation of research. AAMRI President, Professor Brendan Crabb, and others explain to Dani Cooper from ABC Online. [Read more]
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]
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