The Manufacturing, Materials and Minerals Group contains the core of CSIRO’s research focus in the materials, manufacturing, minerals, mining, chemicals, health and infrastructure sectors.
An international recognised expert in medical imaging Dr Simon K. Warfield, has been awarded an Australia-Harvard Fellowship to travel to Australia to work closely with the biomedical imaging team at the Australian e-Health Research Centre on early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
CSIRO has entered into an agreement with Adelaide-based biotech company, Oncaidia Ltd, to make the company’s new anti-cancer drug, Apomab®, suitable for human trials.
An exciting conference that will bring together international world leaders in polymer sciences and industry leaders to share perspectives and work towards producing superior products for the marketplace into the future.
CSIRO is addressing the security and counter-terrorism issues facing Australia with dedicated research and development programs to protect our country from terrorism, crime, invasive diseases and pests, and threats to our civil infrastructure and business community.
The Preventative Health National Research Flagship challenge crosses science boundaries to bring together multidisciplinary research teams from CSIRO and other leading research institutions to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians.
CSIRO can develop new, composite materials to improve the design and fabrication of products, and introduce new qualities such as lightness and corrosion resistance.
This video discusses the winning of a CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement 2006 by Dr Colin Ward and his team for the development of the insulin receptor. (2:30)
This video looks at how CSIRO solved the structure of a flu virus surface protein and led the development of the first anti-viral flu drug effective against all strains of flu. (3:00)
Dr Megan Fisher is acting Chief of CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies, she has tertiary qualifications in science and business and an outstanding track record in strategic management, business development and technology commercialisation.
A one-page information sheet with details of the 9th Protein Expression Workshop that will cover a range of topics to enable successful production of proteins.
The inaugural Australian Crystallisation course will be held during the 8th - 12th December, 2008, at Melbourne University with lectures at bio21 Victoria.
