Funding for AI research to fight breast cancer

News: 29th June 2020

A $2.26 million grant has been awarded through the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to a collaborative group led by St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and St Vincent’s...

2020 Rising Star Awards: recipients announced

News: 26th May 2020

Thanks to generous contributions from our supporters at the 2020 For the Love of Science Dinner, we were able to provide four SVI researchers with Rising Star Awards this year. 

Rising Star...

SVI 2019/20 Research Report – Where hope begins

News: 25th May 2020

Our 2019-20 Research Report, ‘Where hope begins’, is a tribute to the innate sense of optimism and tenacity that defines Australians, and which has been clearly demonstrated by Australia's...

Boost for research into machine learning

News: 20th May 2020

Dr Davis McCarthy’s work to harness the power of big data to solve health problems has received a $1.3 million boost with an Investigator Grant from the National Health and Medical Research...

Clamping down on DNA damage

News: 23rd April 2020

It was the end of a long 16-hour experiment and PhD student Winnie Tan didn’t have a good feeling. She was preparing to use the new electron microscope at Melbourne University and her...