University of Melbourne-led health projects awarded $17m from Medical Research Future Fund

The Melbourne Biomedical Precinct. — University of Melbourne, hospitals and medical research institutes in the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct.

Twelve researchers from the University of Melbourne and partner organisations, the Florey Department of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the Royal Women’s, the Royal Melbourne and Austin Hospitals have been awarded over $17 million in funding from the Medical Research Future Fund.

The funding will enable significant research projects across a range of essential areas in health and medical research, from new treatments for epilepsy, cancer and prion disease to initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of women, children, carers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Professor Jane Gunn AO, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, welcomed the latest funding announcement. “I'm delighted that the MRRF funding will support essential work to improve the health of children, improve access to stroke care and build the vital knowledge to treat chronic diseases across our many collaborating centres in the faculty,” she said.

The the full list of recipients can be viewed here.

More information about the announcement can be found here.