7th May, 2012 Leading business figures - including Goldman Sachs Managing Director Alastair Lucas (pictured), Managing Director of the Wesfield Group Steven Lowy, UBS Australia Vice-Chairman of investment banking Peter Scott, and Qantas Chairman Leigh Clifford - have called on the federal government to increase funding for independent medical research. [Read more]
3rd May, 2012 More than 200 people turned out for the public forum on the future of health and medical research in Melbourne this week, the Burnet Institute reports. [Read more]
26th April, 2012 Australia’s usually mild-mannered medical researchers marched in the streets a year ago to protest mooted government budget cuts. In the lead up to the 2012-13 federal budget, researchers remain wary that funding may be under threat again, writes AAMRI President Professor Julie Campbell in The Conversation. [Read more]
19th April, 2012 An opinion piece highlighting the positive impact of medical research on reducing HIV infections, penned by Professor Brendan Crabb (CEO and Executive Director, Burnet Institute and AAMRI President-Elect) and the Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG, was published in The Australian today. [Read more]
31st March, 2012 The Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI) has proposed a massive overhaul of the health and medical research sector to increase the emphasis on the health issues facing Australia and stem the country’s ballooning health costs in its submission to the Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research. [Read more]
8th March, 2012 The Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (AAMRI) today welcomed changes to the eligibility criteria of Microsoft’s Charity Volume Licensing Program to include independent medical research institutes. [Read more]
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