2017 Research Equipment Grants Funded

Research Equipment Grants are directed to providing substantial funding for key research platforms, core equipment and capacities to enhance the cancer research effort in NSW.

These grants will support capability development and greater levels of collaboration across the cancer research sector.

Research Equipment Grants are open to members of Translational Cancer Research Centres.

Administering Institution	Equipment Location	Applicant Name	Application Title	Amount (Excluding GST)
Children's Medical Research Institute	Children's Medical Research Institute	Professor Phillip Robinson	High performance computing platform for cancer proteogenomic research	$910,000
Macquarie University	Macquarie University	Associate Professor Mark Molloy	High content oncoproteomics for improved prognostication and treatment response	$605,000
The University of Newcastle	Hunter Medical Research Institute	Professor Rodney Scott	Beyond the Next Generation of DNA Sequencing: Long Read Sequencing using Sequel	$570,000
The University of New South Wales	Children’s Cancer Institute	Professor Michelle Haber	Robotic Acoustic Liquid Dispensing System for Drug Discovery and Personalised Medicine	$759,300
The University of New South Wales	The University of New South Wales	Professor Maria Kavallaris	Ultra-fast, high resolution, low-dose microcomputed tomography for cancer and vascular imaging in small animals	$383,100
The University of New South Wales	Ingham Institute	The Hon Michael Barton	X-Ray Detectors for Tomorrow's Radiotherapy.	$170,437
The University of New South Wales	The University of New South Wales	Professor Peter Gunning	Rapid Lifetime and Superresolution Imaging for understanding the molecular choreography of cancer	$600,000
The University of Sydney	Westmead Institute for Medical Research	Professor Graham Mann	BD FACSymphony A5 High Parameter Flow Cytometer for Westmead Research Hub at Westmead Precinct	$770,000
The University of Sydney	Bosch Institute	Professor Des Richardson	UNcle All-in-One Biologics Stability Platform with Robotic High Throughput Screening System for the Open Access, Multi-Disciplinary Bosch Molecular Biology Facility	$322,250
The University of Sydney	Kolling Institute	Associate Professor Roderick Clifton-Bligh	ZOOMing in on new cancer therapies: Real-time quantitative live cell imaging for cancer research and drug discovery.	$161,820
Total:				$5,251,907