Overview
QIMR aims to improve the health and well-being of all people by developing new methods of detection, better treatments and prevention strategies. This is achieved through fundamental research, drug development and clinical trials.
QIMR has over 600 scientists, students and support staff in five research divisions and a corporate division. Because of its proximity to major teaching hospitals and the University of Queensland Medical School, the Institute is well placed for clinical applications of research, including bench to bedside research techniques. It is one of Australia’s only fully integrated biomedical research and development centres with GMP manufacturing facilities.
In 2007, QIMR was awarded a $2.7 million grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation to provide vital equipment for the QIMR's Centre for Cancer Epigenetics - the first research facility of its kind in the world. QIMR's Education Program provides students with real laboratory experiences.
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