�Nine of the nation's leading scientific research institutions have launched a new partnership to boost Australia's research capacity for tackling major health problems including cancer, diabetes, deafness, sterility, autoimmune disease and arthritis.
The Australian Phenomics Network (APN) is providing Australian and International researchers with the latest infrastructure for the study of human disease. The alignment brings together facilities, equipment and expertness to accelerate progress in the proviso of biologic models for medical research. This facilitates Australia devising genuine inroads against all kinds of diseases.
"This is incredibly exciting science - frontier science - and it's great to envision Australian researchers leading the way," aforementioned Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
APN Chief Scientific Officer Professor Chris Goodnow said: "Together we'll be able to access biological models that have been developed for specific enquiry projects. Combining our technical resources way we can spend more time really doing the research that will make a real difference in our efforts to combat diseases."
APN Convenor Associate Professor Moira O'Bryan from Monash University aforesaid the jut out is virtually combining efforts and load-bearing all Australian researchers. "Australia has a wealth of talent in medical inquiry, spread across a identification number of institutions. Each organisation has its own strengths in different areas," she says. "The APN will allow our resources to be combined and greatly enhance Australia's research capacity."
The APN is also working with the Atlas of Living Australia project to develop a framework for building network resources that capture, footnote and propagate research information and volition enable research outcomes to be translated to clinical outcomes more rapidly.
The APN is funded by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), contributions from state governments, and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
The mesh combines the resources of the Australian National University, Monash University, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, the University of Melbourne, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Menzies Research Institute and the Animal Resource Centre.
The APN's expertness is complemented by internal and external partnerships with the Garvan Institute, the Institute of Molecular Bioscience, the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the University of Manitoba (Canada).
Source: Simon Couper
Research Australia
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