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CSIRO
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, will spearhead a $1.7 million project to identify new treatments for COVID-19, including ‘long-COVID’.
Scientists will develop a faster, smarter way of rapidly screening existing drugs and advancing those that can be used to treat COVID-19 and aim to have identified thee suitable TGA- or FDA-approved drug candidates to progress to phase 2-3 human clinical trials within a year.
Led by researchers at CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness in Geelong, the project received $1 million in funding from the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), with the remaining contributed by CSIRO.
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Up, up and away: RMIT engineers part of team transforming urgent stroke care in air and on ground
RMIT University
RMIT researchers will build light, portable brain scanners into air and road ambulances as part of a project to revolutionise stroke care in Australia.
School of Engineering Professor Cees Bil and Associate Professor Kate Fox are part of a multi-organisation team recently awarded $40 million from the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Frontiers initiative.
The five-year, first of its kind, program is expected to dramatically reduce the risk of death and disability from stroke for many Australians, but particularly for those who live in rural or remote locations. It will build on the successful metropolitan mobile stroke ambulance, which has been serving Melburnians for three years.
Micro-X
Australian Department of Health backs game changing portable CT scanner by Micro-X
Innovative Adelaide-based manufacturer Micro-X has received funding to develop a game-changing portable brain scanner from the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund.
The scanner will be small enough to be placed in ambulances or Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft and will give more Australians rapid access to treatment in the crucial first “golden hour” after a stroke.
It is expected to revolutionise stroke care particularly for rural and remote Australians who are twice as likely as city stroke survivors to be left with a serious, lifelong disability.