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Australian Stem Cell Centre

Biotechnology Centre of Excellence

The Australian Stem Cell Centre was established to create a national multi-institutional research and discovery program for the development of treatments for serious diseases using stem cell and related technologies. The Australian Research Council and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research jointly administer funding to the Centre of $98.55 million over the nine years to 2011.

The Centre’s research portfolio has recently been reorganised into four large research programs known as ‘Collaborative Streams’. These streams consist of a number of research modules built around four main themes of stem cell research: embryonic stem cells; adult stem cells; induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) and bioreactors for the propagation of stem cells.

The ASCC currently funds research at leading institutes and universities in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales with the major nodes located at Monash University and the University of Queensland. The Centre is partnered with organisations with complementary research capabilities.  The current voting Members, who retain ultimate oversight of the Centre, are: Monash University, University of Queensland, Howard Florey Institute and University of Adelaide. The additional Stakeholder institutes are: University of Melbourne, Baker IDI, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and Mater Medical Research Institute.

Australian Stem Cell Centre