ANU wins $12.8 million in latest NHMRC funding

The NHMRC funding demonstrates how internationally renowned research at ANU was assisting people nationally and across the globe. The Australian National University (ANU) has won $12.8 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding. ANU will lead a total of 16 grants, with the biggest grant going to Professor Simon Easteal at The John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR) for his project on Indigenous Genomics. The ANU funding was part of the $640 million announcement made at JCSMR by Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP. ANU Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) Professor Margaret Harding said the NHMRC funding demonstrates how internationally renowned research at ANU was assisting people nationally and across the globe. "This funding highlights the quality of health and medical research being led by ANU," Professor Harding said. "On behalf of the University, I congratulate the grant recipients and look forward to seeing the results of their research." Professor Easteal, Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics (NCIG), won $1.4 million in funding to establish an Indigenous Australian reference genome (the NCIGrg), using advanced genome sequencing technologies and data analytics.