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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