NSW Research Sector Receives $8 Million Infrastructure Boost
The state’s research sector will benefit from an $8 million funding boost to cutting-edge research and development facilities through the NSW Government’s Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP).
NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte said the funding encourages and supports high-quality, high-impact research and helps to drive innovation in the state's research and development sector.
The funding is provided to NSW-based institutions that have been funded under the Commonwealth’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
“This funding will help to ensure our world-class facilities are at the top of their game and will also attract leading international research projects to NSW,” Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte said. “The NSW Government has a strong track record of supporting of NCRIS facilities in the state, providing almost $50 million in co-investment funding from 2006/07 to date.
“Co-investment in this infrastructure has allowed NSW to build and support facilities conducting research in important areas including nano-fabrication, atom-scale imaging, new bio-platforms, astronomical observation and many more. This work will help to develop exciting new technologies and accelerate the growth of high-tech industry, delivering prosperity to NSW.
“This year, more than $2 million has been awarded to the NSW nodes of the Australian National Fabrication Facility to support work such as 3D Bioprinting and Silicon Quantum Computing,” Professor Durrant-Whyte said.
“Bioplatforms Australia will receive $1.5 million to grow bioinformatics expertise in NSW and support a major Proteome Analysis facility.”
Further information can be found here.
Grants were awarded to the following NSW-based research facilities, with separate facilities or nodes as indicated:
ANSTO Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS)
ANSTO Centre for Accelerator Science (CAS)
Australian Astronomical Optics Macquarie University node (AAO-MQ)
Australian National Fabrication Facility – NSW nodes consortium (ANFF)
Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR)
Biologics Innovation Facility
Bioplatforms Australia
Groundwater Infrastructure Program
Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
Intersect Australia (NSW eResearch Nexus)
Microscopy Australia (Formerly AMMRF)
National Imaging Facility (NIF)
Secure Unified Research Environment (SURE)
Sydney Cell and Gene Therapy (SCGT) – Westmead Research Hub
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)
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