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Friday, 07 October 2016

Medical Research Future Fund
Great expectations and sober realities:
Will the MRFF help link bench and bedside?

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Will the MRFF help link bench and bedside?">
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Meeting Chair:
Professor John McGrath
Niels Bohr Professor, University of Aarhus; Director, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, The University of Queensland

Concise MRFF Update – Strategies and Priorities – Timelines and Mechanism
Professor Ian Frazer
Chair, Foundation Board, Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland

What will the Advanced Health Research and Translation Centres be expecting from the MRFF?
Professor Steve Wesselingh
Executive Director, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute

What will the independent Medical Research Institutes be expecting from the MRFF?
Professor Anthony Cunningham
Executive Director, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research and the Institute’s Centre for Virus Research

What will the University sector be expecting from the MRFF?
Professor Robyn Ward
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), The University of Queensland

What will the biotech and the commercialization sector be expecting from the MRFF?
Professor John Shine
Professor of Medicine and Molecular Biology, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, UNSW; Chairman, CSL Limited

What will the health and medical work force be expecting from the MRFF?
Professor Rob Ramsay
Group Leader, Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Professor Michael Berk
Alfred Deakin Professor of Psychiatry, Deakin University

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