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Academy calls for manufacturing boost for vaccines

Without the ability to produce vaccines onshore, Australia and the region remain vulnerable to supply shocks and ‘vaccine nationalism’, the Academy of Science says in a pre-budget submission to...

Commercialisation funding a key to recovery

6 October 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Leading industry groups and universities have called on the federal government to make a targeted effort to address Australia’s commercialisation woes in this week’s federal budget, with new funds...

Medical research skills gap looms

4 August 2020 | by James Riley

The nation’s medical research institutes have called on government to fund an additional 300 investigator grants over three years to support early and mid-stage career scientists to remain in...

RDTI savings must go back to innovation

27 March 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The hundreds of millions of dollars in savings from planned cuts to the research and development tax incentive should be reinvested in direct support for Australian innovation, according to...

Commercialising medical research

28 October 2015 | by James Riley

The federal government has transferred an initial $1.1 billion to the new Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) and plans to start distributing some of that cash to boost funding...