Researchers at The Kids Research Institute Australia have today been awarded more than $11 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
The grants were part of a $580.2 million announcement of national funding by the Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott MP and the Minister for Health, the Hon Peter Dutton MP.
The Kids director Professor Jonathan Carapetis said the NHMRC grants will fund important child health research in a range of areas including asthma, IVF, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and infectious diseases.
The Kids was awarded two prestigious Centres of Research Excellence, one in diabetes and one in rheumatic heart disease.
The successful grants are: