National Health and Medical Research Council

The University of Sydney secured more than $46 million in funding in the 2007 round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant, Capacity Building and Fellowship awards, the largest allocation to any university in the state.

Five of the University's affiliated medical research facilities secured $38 million in the Australian government’s 2006 budget, part of $163 million made available for a variety of development and expansion projects. These include:

• The Centenary Institute – $10 million for medical research in a range of projects covering immunology and molecular medicine
  The Woolcock Institute of Medical Research – $5 million to further its work in the area of respiratory and sleep research
• The Westmead Millennium Institute – $15 million for research into cancer and leukaemia; infectious and immune diseases; mental illness and liver, kidney, eye, heart and respiratory disease
• The Sydney Melanoma Unit – $6 million for a wide range of basic and clinical research relating to melanoma at the largest treatment centre for melanoma in the world, and
• The Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI) – $2 million for research on prevalent mental and neurological disorders, and multidisciplinary research into other brain-related areas such as chronic fatigue and chronic pain.

• Successful NHMRC Projects 2007
• Successful NHMRC Fellowships 2007