NHMRC funding for health research

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Vaccines for cancers, better pain relief and getting people off the couch and exercising are some of UQ’s research programs recently given a multi-million dollar boost.

Three UQ research teams have received almost $22 million as part of the $108 million National Health and Medical Research Council 2010 Program Grants aimed at giving scientists the ability to expand the scope of their research. UQ was awarded more than 20 percent of the national total.

Professor Ranjeny Thomas’s team at UQ’s Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine received $10.13 million to work on vaccines for cancer, chronic infections and autoimmune diseases such as diabetes.

Meanwhile, Professor Neville Owen who leads the Cancer Prevention Research Centre in UQ’s School of Population Health, received $5.39 million to examine ways to increase physical activity in an increasingly less active society.

Associate Professor Richard Lewis from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience also received $6.36 million to develop new drugs to treat chronic pain.

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