State government’s like funding medical research – voters like it and the Commonwealth pays for most of the infrastructure

The WA Government announces $8m for 17 new health and medical initiatives.  The Telethon Kids Institute has five and UWA has four, Curtin and Murdoch U have one each, with the balance going to corporates.

It follows last week’s announcement of same amount fellowships for four researchers who were near misses for National Health and Medical Research Funding grants (CMM June 23).

The NSW and Victorian governments have both made sizeable recent med research investments (CMM June 14, 20).