February 2025
News • 11 Feb 2025
New grant for spinal cord study supports significant step towards better pain treatments
A University of Newcastle research team has secured a $940,000 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grant to examine the role of spinal cord cells in processing and producing pain signals, which could have a significant impact on how chronic pain is treated.
News • 11 Feb 2025
Sport
Researchers at the University of Newcastle have secured $868,000 in state government funding to develop a program aimed at keeping teenage girls in sport, while tackling key challenges like body image, self-esteem, mental health, screentime behaviours and social media pressures.
News • 5 Feb 2025
Lyngo's AI receptionist lets no opportunity go unanswered.
News • 3 Feb 2025
Three Tour de Cure Grants awarded
We’re delighted to announce that three researchers in the Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research have been awarded funding in the 2024/2025 Tour de Cure grant round.
News • 3 Feb 2025
$2 million NHMRC grant brings childhood cancer cure step closer
A University of Newcastle research team has been awarded a $2 million National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant to help progress its mission to develop breakthrough treatments for the most lethal form of childhood cancer, diffuse midline glioma (DMG).
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