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Australian health research infrastructure underpins world-first brain cancer collaboration
The NCRIS Health Group will support Australian brain cancer research through Brain Cancer Australia’s project to develop an integrated network of research platforms to improve patient outcomes, test new treatments and work toward a cure, with the announcement of a...
The Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens Framework Data Initiative multi-omics resource is now published!
Severe sepsis and septic shock have a mortality rate of 20-40% in the setting of optimal resuscitation in wealthy countries and are responsible for the loss of millions of health dollars and tens of thousands of lives every year. Antibiotic intervention remains one of...
Annual Report 2022
Bioplatforms Australia, enabled by NCRIS investment in research infrastructure, is committed to supporting the Australian life sciences community through a diverse access program, provision of targeted infrastructure requirements, and making integrated capability...
National research infrastructure working together to improve the health of Australians
Innovation in Australia’s health and medical research translation has been boosted with the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)- enabled health and medical research partners signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU). Bioplatforms...
Bioplatforms proud to support precision medicine cancer PrOSPeCT Trial
Image: Professor David Thomas at the funding announcement. Credit to the Garvan Institute Press Release. Bioplatforms Australia welcomes the recent announcement of the $185 million investment to fast-track treatments for rare and ‘untreatable’ cancers. The Precision...
Bioplatforms is seeking innovative ideas to enhance research capability
Bioplatforms Australia is seeking innovative ideas from current and potential future partners to identify opportunities to deepen and enhance the overall capability and capacity of its network. We are seeking to extend Bioplatforms current suite of research...
Plant Pathogen Omics Initiative announces an open call for genomics-focused projects
The Bioplatforms Australia Plant Pathogen ‘Omics Initiative is now seeking partners to nominate and lead projects that will generate important genomic data resources for priority plant pathogen species. Background and Aims The Bioplatforms...
Woylies back in their former range for the first time in 100 years
To support the recovery of threatened species, conservation managers implement multiple diverse yet interconnected actions from feral animal and weed management, to habitat restoration and the establishment of captive populations for reintroduction purposes....
Annual Report 2021: Science in practice
As Australia, indeed the global community works through the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that research and science will be critical to address all manner of challenges. These challenges of course compound with the ongoing impacts of climate change and clean energy,...
NCRIS: The power behind Australia’s science
Australian science continues to make national and international headlines, most recently focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2019 – 2020 Australian bushfires. Behind these headlines, you will find a community of impassioned researchers. And behind...
Introducing the Australian Reference Genome Atlas (ARGA)
To consolidate Australia’s genomic data and make it available for researchers to use, the Atlas of Living Australia, Bioplatforms Australia, Australian BioCommons and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) funded via the Australian Government’s National Collaborative...
Unveiling the secrets of the NSW Waratah
We are very excited to announce the completion of the NSW waratah (Telopea speciosissima) genome from our Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP) Initiative led by researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney and the University of...
Bioplatforms lends infrastructure and expertise to four new ARC centres
Bioplatforms Australia partners on 4 of the 16 successful ARC Industrial Training Centre’s and Industrial Transformation Research Hubs announced today. This is indicative of the dependence upon deep biological analytics in contemporary scientific discovery and...
Threatened Species Initiative on the cover of Australian Geographic
One of our major Framework Initiative Projects, The Threatened Species Initiative (TSI), made the front cover of Australian Geographic for their January/February issue. The article highlights how genetic data is helping to reveal much about the evolution of...
Request for partnerships on conservation projects for Australian species
Two fantastic opportunities are now available for partnerships on Conservation projects for Australian fauna and flora species as part of the Australian Amphibian and Reptile Genomics initiative and the Threatened Species initiative. The Australian Amphibian and...
How Australian research infrastructure supports global efforts during COVID-19
Professor Andy Lowe’s piece on how Australian research infrastructure supported global efforts during COVID-19 has been published on the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) website:...
Annual Report 2020
Annual Report 2020: Response and Recovery The last year has been like no other, with Australia in particular facing a succession of challenges related to drought, bushfires and the global pandemic. These have caused intense strain on individuals, families, communities...
Bioplatforms to partner on four high-impact data collaborations
The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) has seeded the establishment of cross-NCRIS national data assets to support science across disciplines. The successful projects will bring together complementary types of data at a scale that provides new insights and...
Revealing the secrets of Golden Wattle
PRESS RELEASE9:00AM AEST31.08.2020 For more than 25 million years, wattles or acacias (genus Acacia) have grown on land now known as Australia. They have adapted to all of Australia’s extreme environments and many species have evolved resistance to fire,...
Annual Report 2019
Annual Report 2019: a catalytic year The 2019 year saw Bioplatforms Australia build on the May 2018 Commonwealth Government NCRIS funding announcements to commit to longer term arrangements with a national network of Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics and...
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