Funding

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.

A clinical trial for motor neurone disease (MND) patients will proceed thanks to a funding boost from FightMND.

Three Early Career Researchers at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) have been awarded nearly $2 million in Investigator Grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

A facility headquartered at AIBN has received $4.59 million from the Queensland Government to continue its innovative research and industry projects such as needle-free vaccine delivery.

University of Queensland Professor Yusuke Yamauchi, in collaboration with researchers from The University of Tokyo has been awarded the first Rio-Tinto Australia-Japan Collaboration Program Grant.