Macquarie Bank celebrates its 50th birthday with five $10m research awards
* Monash U’s world mosquito programme: “to protect 100 million people by 2023 from deadly mosquito-borne diseases”
* Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s world scabies elimination programme: treat 1.5m people in Fiji and the Solomon Islands with 90 per cent disease reduction “with a single round of medicine”
* Last Mile Health:“strengthen existing operations in Liberia and transform national health systems in Malawi and Ethiopia, serving more than 100 million people”
* Social Finance: funding for US low-income students via a loan with capped payments
* Ocean Clean-Up: removing plastics in the Pacific