New collaborative centres support advanced therapies and rare disease research
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The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund has awarded $3.5 million to accelerate Western Australian world-leading, clinician-led research into childhood rare and undiagnosed diseases, gene therapies and lung cancer management.
The Collaborative Centres program is designed to accelerate new or emerging programs of world-leading collaborative research and to develop and enhance national and international partnerships in order to improve the international standing of a research program, with a view to increasing the team’s potential to become a self-sustaining Collaborative Centre.
The program received a significant number of high-quality applications that were assessed by an independent prestigious assessment panel. Panel members included recipients of the Order of Australia, Distinguished Fellows, esteemed academics from the University sector and a consumer representative.
The Collaborative Centre recipients are shown below:
| Activity lead | Responsible entity | Activity title | Funding awarded |
| Professor Gareth Baynam | Child and Adolescent Health Service | The CAHS Collaborative Centre for Research & Innovation Excellence for Rare & Undiagnosed Diseases (RUD) | $1,200,000 |
| A/Professor Zlatibor Velickovic | East Metropolitan Health Service | Collaborative Centre for Advanced Therapies (CCPAT) | $1,031,770 |
| Professor Gary Lee | North Metropolitan Health Service | Collaborative Centre for Innovative Pleural Research | $1,198,388 |