THE National Health and Medical
Research Council (NHMRC) has
unveiled its plan for delivery of
the Government’s $200m budget
measure to boost dementia
research.
The scheme was expected to fund
up to five teams for up to $6.5m
each over five years, a total of
$32.5m, NHMRC said.
Another $62.5m would be
used to support large scale
research projects, with $46m for
capacity building grants to attract
researchers from other fields into
dementia research and $50m to
target, coordinate and translate
dementia research through the
new National Institute for Dementia
Research, the plans for which were
well under way, NHMRC said.The above article was sent to subscribers in Pharmacy Daily's issue from 11 Aug 14 To see the full newsletter, see the embedded issue below or CLICK HERE to download Pharmacy Daily from 11 Aug 14
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