The ARC is a statutory authority within the Australian Government's Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR). Its mission is to deliver policy and programs that advance Australian research and innovation globally and benefit the community.

Centres of Excellence

ARC Centres of Excellence are prestigious hubs of expertise through which high-quality researchers maintain and develop Australia's international standing in research areas of national priority.

• ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology
• ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology
• ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale

National Centres

• Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics

Research Networks

• Environmental Futures Network
• Network in Genes and Environment in Development

 

The NHMRC is Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research; for developing health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments; and for providing advice on ethical behaviour in health care and in the conduct of health and medical research.

Program Grants

• Program for Pathogenesis, treatment and prevention of bacterial infectious diseases (Prof James Paton, end date 31/12/2014)
• Program for Periconceptual foundations for a healthy start to life (Prof Rob Norman, end date 31/12/2011)
• Program for Posttraumatic Mental Health: advancing understanding of diagnosis, treatment and mechanisms (Prof Alexander McFarlane, end date 31/12/2014)
• Program for structural biology of cytokine receptor signalling (affiliate) (Prof Angel Lopez, end date 31/12/2014)
• Program for HIV & HCV Vaccines & Immunopathogenesis (partner) (Dr Michael Beard, end date 31/12/2013)
• Program for Epilepsy: Molecular basis and mechanisms in the era of functional genomics (partner) (Dr John Mulley, end date 31/12/2010)

NHMRC Centres of Clinical Research Excellence

• Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in nutritional physiology, interventions and outcomes (Prof Michael Horowitz, end date 31/12/2011)
• Centres of Clinical Research Excellence for Oral Health (Prof Mark Bartold, end date 31/3/2014)

NHMRC Capacity Building Grants

• Health Care in the round: building capacity for integrated decision-making for improving health services (Prof Konrad Jamrozik, end date 31/12/2013)
• Improving population health by a multi-disciplinary, multi-method focus on kidney diseases of the young, the old and of indigenous Australians (partner) (A/Prof Stephen McDonald, end date 31/12/2011)

 

Cooperative Research Centres bring together researchers from universities, the CSIRO and other government laboratories, and private industry or public sector agencies. These long-term collaborative arrangements support research & development and education activities that achieve real outcomes of national economic and social significance.

The University is also a core partner, supporting participant or associate in 11 Cooperative Research Centres (a Commonwealth Government program linking industry with government and higher education research organisations). Learn more about participating in CRCs at the University of Adelaide.

• CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (core)
• eWater CRC (core)
• CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies (core)
• CRC for Future Farm Industries (core)
• Pork CRC (core)
• Deep Exploration Technologies CRC (core)
• Energy Pipelines CRC (core)
• CRC for Seafood (supporting)
• CRC for National Plant Biosecurity (supporting)
• Poultry CRC (supporting)
• Bushfire CRC (supporting)

Previous CRCs

• CRC for Molecular Plant Breeding (core)
• CRC for Desert Knowledge (associate partner)