At the official launch of RDA Hunter’s Smart Specialisation Strategy for the Hunter Region report today (March 17), Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spoke of innovation being at the heart of the Federal Government’s plan to deliver a robust 21st century economy.
The Strategy acknowledged the Hunter Medical Research Institute’s contribution to the medical technologies landscape, which was extremely pleasing since innovation is also at the heart and soul of our world-leading research model.
Our strategic goals very much align with those of the Federal Government and RDA Hunter, and we are confident that a sustained focus on translational research and innovation will provide a solid footing to capitalise on grants from the Medical Research Future Fund and the $250 million Biomedical Translation package tied to the National Innovation and Science Agenda.
Our pillar partners HNE Health and the University of Newcastle are the region’s biggest employers and through them HMRI has grown to become NSW’s second largest medical research institute. Some 1500 researchers and staff are now aligned to the Institute, striving to solve society’s biggest health conundrums.
When our founders met in 1998 I imagine this wasn’t even in their wildest dreams. But the translational research model that ensued was ahead of the game, so to speak, and it remains our sole purpose and passion. Simply, it means facilitating an ongoing flow of information and innovation from the science/academic sphere to the clinic and back.
View Professor Nilsson’s complete article https://hmri.org.au/2016/03/innovation-at-heart-of-hmri-translational-goal/