Key role for La Trobe in new Government Research Centres of Excellence The Federal Government has awarded $8m to three La Trobe University scientists for leading-edge research into next-generation immunological and plant-based therapies for cancer and other diseases. Research groups led by physicists Dr Brian Abbey and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Keith Nugent, and by […]
November 14, 2013
La Trobe University has received almost $8 million in new Australian Research Council (ARC) grants from the Federal Government. A further 1.8 million dollars was awarded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The latest ARC grants are for studies that will make a difference in fields ranging from children’s health, medicine and food […]
November 13, 2012
La Trobe University has received about $6.4 milllion in this year’s funding allocations from both the National Health & Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council (ARC). Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Tim Brown, says in winning support for highly competitive major ARC ‘Discovery Projects’, La Trobe has achieved a very pleasing 15 per cent […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe scientists receive $3.2 m for national capacity building – La Trobe University has received more than $3.2 million from the highly competitive Australian Research Council grants scheme to further the work of its leading research teams. Included in this is more than a million dollars for state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation, forging closer links […]
December 6, 2011
A leading authority on Russia, historian Dr Robert Horvath, has received a prestigious federal government ‘Future Fellowship’ worth more than $600,000 for research into state-sponsored nationalism and the ominous rise of militant xenophobia in Russia. Dr Horvath’s Fellowship is part of a series of Australian Research Council (ARC) awards announced in November by Innovation Minister Senator Kim […]
February 21, 2014
0