Research Australia grassROOTS spring 2014

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Spring into action

03 Labor and Medical Research – Investing in the future

04 The Coalition’s proud record supporting H&MR

05 Green industries hit ‘a hole in one’ for cancer research

07 New clinical trial to fight kids’ brain tumours

08 Clive Berghofer makes record breaking donation to QIMR

09 Can vitamin D prevent multiple sclerosis?

10 Improved screening drives

better health outcomes for rural children

11 New Auburn Clinical School Opens

12 Multimillion-dollar boost to brain diseases with opening of new research facility

13 Vaccine prevention of middle ear infection in children

14 ChIPS: A peer support group

helping young people living with chronic illness

15 Recovery on the HORYZON 16 UWS researcher receives accolade

RESEARCH AUSTRALIA

for Chinese Medicine research

17 Australian-Indonesian partnership yields practical solution to sanitation problems

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Editor’s Corner

AN ALLIANCE FOR DISCOVERIES IN HEALTH

SPRING 2013


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