Image: Associate Professor Jack Richards
Broad-ranging Burnet Institute research into hepatitis C will benefit from National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants valued at more than AUD$1.9 million.
Associate Professor Jack Richards is the Chief Investigator of an NHMRC Development Grant awarded AUD$781,353 for the development of a molecular point-of-care test for hepatitis C to increase uptake of curative antiviral treatments.
Burnet's Associate Professor David Anderson, Professor Margaret Hellard, Associate Professor Joe Doyle and Professor Heidi Drummer are co-investigators on the study.
Professor Mark Stoové, Burnet Head of Public Health, is among the Chief Investigators on a University of New South Wales study National Prisons hepatitis C education: improving health literacy to enhance treatment uptake awarded NHMRC Partnership Project funding worth AUD$1,158,722.
Burnet's Co-Program Director, Professor Caroline Homer AO is a Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Partnership Project Advancing Women in Healthcare Leadership valued at AUD$752,694 awarded to Monash University.
