Funding

What do 4D printed robots, fish food, flow batteries, PFAS remediation, next-gen mRNA, and indoor solar panels have in common?

The University of Queensland’s BASE facility – within the AIBN – and Brisbane-based biotechnology company Vaxxas have been announced as stage winners of a prestigious global prize to accelerate a patch-based mRNA vaccine for COVID-19.

AIBN researchers have won vital funding to address the spread of cancer and develop new technology that could fight off the next pandemic.

Organoid researchers at the AIBN have won $4.1 million MRFF grant to prove the effectiveness of epilepsy drugs made from spider venom.

Researchers at the AIBN have won vital funding to improve personalised healthcare, develop new energy solutions, and unearth cleaner mining technologies – all in tandem with local industry partners.

Wounds that heal without leaving a scar, and research to prevent developmental impairments in children are two crucial Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) projects that have been backed under the latest Ideas Grants funding round.

Three exciting AIBN projects will share $1.5 million to accelerate research essential for a knowledge-based economy.

AIBN’s Professor Yusuke Yamauchi has been named as a Research Project Director by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) funding program, an initiative of the Japan Science and Technology Agency.

Sugarcane waste could be a key ingredient in tackling plastic pollution, with an AIBN researcher receiving funding to turn the green waste into sustainable packaging.

AIBN researchers have secured new funding to help the design of new nanomedicines, diagnostics and strengthen collaborative industry-partnered research projects.