$3.4M MRFF funding for preventing superbugs using Genomics, Digital Health and AI

The SuperbugAi Flagship schema: From now to the future [click on the image to enlarge it]

Congratulations to Professor Anton Peleg and his team from the Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital and Central Clinical School, Monash University, who have been awarded $3.4M from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Genomics Health Futures Mission for a project called "Genomics, Digital Health and Machine Learning: the SuperbugAi Flagship". The funding was announced as part of the federal government budget broadcast on Tuesday 6 October.

Opening eyes to a frontier in vision restoration

Internal electronics of the Gennaris implant for bionic vision.
Image: BDI

• A world-first device to restore vision to the blind is being prepared for human clinical trials in Melbourne.
• Additional funding can help researchers establish an implantable device manufacturing facility to support the commencement of this clinical trial.
• It will also support further life-saving research into brain-controlled prosthetics.
• This project, more than 10 years in the making, will boost local manufacturing and may help treat other conditions, such as limb paralysis.
• A revolutionary cortical vision device, developed by Monash University researchers that could one day help restore vision to the blind, is being prepared for world-first human clinical trials in Melbourne.