Getting the research funding balance right. Prof Warwick Anderson wants to dispel some of the suspicion surrounding the government’s mooted Medical Research Future Fund. “We’ll be arguing for our existing endowment pool and the new funding from the medical research future fund to be set up separately,” said Anderson, who is CEO of Australia’s peak government medical funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council. Anderson confirmed that the NHMRC will ask to be the body responsible for dispersing the Medical Research Future Fund money. If the two pools are kept separate, “that allows us to do things we can’t do with our current endowment fund,” he said. “We envisage that the new funding should be available for such things as the infrastructure around research, registers of diseases, collection of specimens, development of ideas and a degree of commercialisation assistance. I think the population has an expectation of both health and wealth from medical funding.” Read more afr/p/business/healthcare2-0/getting_the_research_funding_balance_yqz0IMWSp99hSQ23N5Ax1K
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:36:38 +0000
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