Leadership WA chief executive officer Robin McClellan spent 10 minutes with the state's chief scientist Peter Klinken, who wants Perth to be a centre of innovation and creativity.
The news last month that CBH Group was shutting down its Lupin Foods subsidiary after failing to find a buyer shows that commercial requirements and scientific advancement do not always connect neatly.
Richard Johnson reckons he'd be a millionaire if he had a dollar for every time an adult walked into his laboratory at Rostrata Primary School and said: “Wow, I wish I had this when I was a kid.”
Figures released today show Western Australia's share of national health and medical research grants has not grown, despite the hopes of leading researchers that an industry-led reform would put the state back on a path to funding in line with WA's share of the national population.
The first sod has been turned at the Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute in Nedlands, with Cockram Construction set to begin work under a $30.3 million contract.
Commercial real estate agency Colliers International has awarded its first scholarship – a $10,000 donation to a PhD student researching pancreatic cancer at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical
University of Western Australia researcher Ryan Lister is one of three winners of the 2014 Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowship.
Wesfarmers has donated $5 million to the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research to help recruit a leader for what will be the first centre in Western Australia to focus on women's cancers.
Woodside Petroleum has donated $1 million to the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, while 100 Woodside employees have raised almost $280,000 more through the Ride to Conquer Cancer.
Colliers International has been appointed to manage two new facilities for the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research which will hold a combined value of $200 million when they open next year.
FIFTEEN years after the late Harry Perkins' efforts to create the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research bore fruit, the not-for-profit will take his name in a major rebranding move.
Perth-based technology group Titan ICT Consultants has been signed by the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research to design and build the IT systems for two new medical research facilities
From major rides that take over freeways, to smaller, more intimate groups keeping to selected cycle routes, it seems more people are getting on to their bikes to support health-related charities.
ST John of God Health Care chief executive Michael Stanford has no hesitation in naming the single most important factor in his ability to achieve successful outcomes on the group's construction pr
Doric Contractors has been named as the preferred contractor for the $118 million construction of the new Busselton hospital, adding to its recent spate of contract wins.
Brightwater Care Group is nine months and $3 million away from completing its new brain injury rehabilitation centre in East Victoria Park, one of a handful of state-of-the-art medical facilities c
North Perth-based BPH Energy, which has links to several Western Australian medical research organisations, has announced its drug discovery spin-out Molecular Discovery Systems has been granted a
THE combination of physical activity and fundraising for a good cause has proved a near-faultless model in recent years, with swimming, running and cycling among the many ways of raising a dollar.
THE Western Australian Institute for Medical Research will expand its already diverse funding streams next year, when it becomes the benefactor to the Sunsuper Ride to Conquer Cancer.
MUSICIAN John Butler, art advocate Janet Holmes a Court and WA Institute of Medical Research director Peter Klinken may seem to have little in common – and until recently that may have been the case.
THE prominence of construction giants Leighton Holdings and Brookfield Multiplex in Western Australia has been highlighted by the state government's announcement of the three shortlisted bidders to design and build the new $1.17 billion children's hospita
SUBIACO-BASED engineering and construction contractor Doric has won a contract to build a new medical research facility in Nedlands, which will have a completed cost of more than $100 million.
