Microbiome Research Centre

Overview

On 20 February 2017, the Australian Government provided $4 million (GST exclusive) to the St George and  Sutherland Medical Research Foundation to contribute to the establishment and start-up of a nationally significant Microbiome Research Centre (MRC) based at the St George and Sutherland Clinical School at the St George Hospital in New South Wales.  On 8 June 2018, the Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP agreed to provide an additional $2 million over one year (2017-18) to the Foundation to continue their work to establish the MRC.  The objectives of the grant opportunity are to establish a dedicated Bioinformatics Unit within the MRC and facilities for microbiome specimen storage.