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Welcome to the Alfred Research Alliance news hub. To catch up on the news from our Alliance members, please click on the links below:
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- Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute News
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- 360biolabs

Around the Precinct – 20 October 2022
Alliance researchers receive funding in latest round of NHMRC Investigator Grants, Monash University launches HER Centre Australia to support women’s mental health, and brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong – this fortnight at the Alfred Research Alliance. Alfred Health Using lived experience to support others Meet Bridie. She’s a Youth Peer Support… Read More

Alliance researchers awarded more than $36m in NHMRC funding
Twenty researchers from the Alfred Research Alliance have received a total of more than $36.1 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants, announced yesterday. The Investigator Grant scheme is the largest of the NHMRC’s funding schemes, and aims to support the research program of outstanding investigators at all career… Read More

Heart Foundation funding success for Alliance researchers
The Heart Foundation has announced their 2022 Award Recipients, for research projects commencing in 2023. This year, 14 researchers from the Alfred Research Alliance were successful, recognising our precinct’s excellence in cardiovascular disease research. Future Leader Fellowship, Level 2 Xiaowei Wang, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute Personalised medicine for cardiovascular diseases Future Leader Fellowship, Level… Read More

Around the Precinct – 6 October 2022
On World Heart Day, the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon. Mark Butler MP, attended the precinct along with local MPs Josh Burns and Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah to announce a $1 million grant for extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine research. The visit came in the same week that Monash/Alfred researchers led… Read More