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Astronaut in space

Unravelling the impacts of space travel

24 Nov 2023

A UNSW Sydney researcher has been awarded a $1m grant by the US Air Force to investigate what happens to earthly life in reduced gravity.

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UNSW receives more than $20m for 38 ARC Discovery Projects

01 Nov 2023

The grants will support research in science, engineering, medicine, business, sociology, and defence.

Izzy Jayasinghe

UNSW researcher awarded NSW Health cardiovascular grant

25 Oct 2023

The grant will be used to develop an AI tool that helps identify better treatments for failing hearts.

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Pioneering national genomics initiative to fight cancer launched at UNSW

27 Jul 2023

UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Molecular Oncology will partner with not-for-profit cancer genomics leader Omico to deliver the national precision oncology program PrOSPeCT.

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UNSW researchers awarded $33m for medical research

15 Mar 2023

Fifteen projects have received funding from the Australian Government's Medical Research Future Fund.

NRMRC Ideas Grants

UNSW researchers receive more than $16m in Ideas Grants

15 Dec 2022

20 UNSW academics receive NHMRC Ideas Grants for research in medicine and health, and science.

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UNSW researchers awarded more than $2.3m to build research infrastructure

18 Nov 2022

The two projects aim to produce materials used in electronic, magnetic, and optical devices and infrastructure for the bioprinting of 3D models of organs and tissues.    

Parkinson's Disease

Funding support for early detection of Parkinson's disease

03 Mar 2022

A UNSW Sydney-led consortium has secured a $1.37 million grant from the Michael J. Fox and Shake It Up Australia Foundations.

dr felix aplin

Building better brains - and other ways to manage our bodies

22 Feb 2022

The human brain is the most complicated computer in the world, but we tend to take it for granted.

a doll of a small child stands on ground decorated with blue and pink male and female anatomical symbols

Anatomy texts should show sex as a spectrum to include intersex people

26 Oct 2021

Around two in every 100 people have sex characteristics between the male-female binary definitions. Training for doctors and other health workers needs to reflect this.

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