Collaborative research successes

The University has a rich and diverse research base enabling significant and multi-disciplined research collaboration at all levels, from regional to major international collaborative partnerships.

The excellent discoveries arising from our research are actually finding their way to real products, devices, methods and protocols which make a real and valuable contribution to Australia and the wider community.

Resmed

When Colin Sullivan, head of our Sleep Disorders Unit, developed a mask to treat sleep apnoea 20 years ago, he was unable to find a company to commercialise the device. He persevered, and now thousands of people worldwide are benefiting from the technology. Full story

Medsaic

Medsaic Pty Ltd uses a protein nanoarray platform for the rapid characterization of cellular proteins and has applied this technology to its first product for the diagnosis of Leukaemia.
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Graduate Medical Program

The Faculty of Medicine has changed its medical training program and also introduced online, problem-based learning for the new course. This has underpinned the establishment of a new centre. Full story

International Centre of Excellence in Sport Science and Management

The Howard Government has provided $7.8 million for a new International Centre of Excellence in Sports Science and Management to help build Australia's skills and capabilities in a broad range of sports-related fields.
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Rural health

The Department of Rural Health is a multi-professional department currently involved in an Australia-wide project to investigate what happens to people living in rural and remote Australia when they have to travel away from their communities to receive hospital care.
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Computer imaging

A computer imaging system developed here is helping surgeons to identify the exact position of cancerous tumors in a patient's liver. Full story

Rehabilitation for high risk offenders

Effective rehabilitation of young offenders is an urgent social need. Using mathematical modelling of longitudinal population data, Professor Dianna Kenny from the Faculty of Health Sciences, received $480,000 to identify predictors of re-offending, health risk behaviours, and/or progression to injecting drug use.
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United States of America

We hold 10 grants from the United States National Institutes of Health and have funding from the United States National Cancer Institute, for a study into the genetics of melanoma susceptibility.
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