Health

The wide field of health and medical science covers everything from improved diagnosis of illness to the development of new drugs and treatments. At NCI, researchers are applying computational and big data techniques to the big world of human health.

Thank you to Dr Warren Kaplan (NCI) for his input into this case study

01 Jul 2024

Powering a Genomics Revolution for Australia

Patients suffering from any confirmed, advanced or metastatic cancers have limited treatment options and few ways to find them. The PrOSPeCT project – Precision Oncology Screening Platform Enabling

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Research Highlights

07 Aug 2023

Helping provide the best tools for children's cancer researchers

Biology

Health

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. World-class genomics infrastructure is needed to support Australian scientists and clinicians looking to develop

Ball and stick models of chemical molecules.

Research Highlights

26 May 2023

Understanding atomic interactions to inform cancer therapy development

Chemistry

Health

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2021-2022 Annual Report. Many promising nanomaterials appear to have qualities that could make them well-suited for use in anti-cancer

Research Highlights

14 Apr 2023

Better understanding why severe COVID-19 develops

Biology

Health

NCI supercomputing resources and bioinformatics expertise have improved our understanding of the differences between mild/moderate and severe COVID-19, helping to unravel how severe disease develops

Astronaut in space with Earth in the background

Research Highlights

23 Mar 2023

To the Moon, Mars and medical lab: NCI supports science driving better human health

Radiation physicists from The University of Wollongong’s Centre For Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) are using the power of NCI’s Gadi supercomputer to help keep astronauts safe and prepare for the

Research Highlights

18 May 2022

Finding the genetic cause of lupus

Biology

Chemistry

Health

A team of researchers have discovered a genetic variation that causes the debilitating disease Lupus. The supercomputing and data infrastructure at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

Looking down the middle of an empty street in Melbourne, with no cars and no trams on the tracks.

Research Highlights

13 May 2022

Predicting the next coronavirus outbreak

Health

This research highlight was originally published in NCI's 2020-2021 Annual Report. Professor Ben Corry from The Australian National University received one of five prestigious Australasian Leadership

An orange-hued image superimposing letters of a genome with a computer keyboard.

Research Highlights

21 Jan 2022

Supporting national needs in high-throughput computing

Biology

Health

Technology

NCI supports Australian researchers across all of their computational and data needs, from High-Performance Computing (HPC) through to High-Performance Data (HPD) and High-Throughput Computing (HTC)

A group of Indigenous people standing with a tour guide giving them a tour of a supercomputer.

Research Collaborations

09 Dec 2021

NCI and NCIG are building the foundation for long-term dynamic consent for genome research

Health

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia’s peak supercomputing and big data facility, and the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics ( NCIG) at The Australian National University

Bushfire among trees in Australia, November 2019

Research Collaborations

04 Nov 2021

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Earth and Environmental Science

Health

Materials

Technology

NCI is one of more than 20 projects supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These projects provide vital research infrastructure for all of Australia’s

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The wide field of health and medical science covers everything from improved diagnosis of illness to the development of new drugs and treatments. At NCI, researchers are applying computational and big data techniques to the big world of human health.

Powering a Genomics Revolution for Australia

Helping provide the best tools for children's cancer researchers

Understanding atomic interactions to inform cancer therapy development

Better understanding why severe COVID-19 develops

To the Moon, Mars and medical lab: NCI supports science driving better human health

Finding the genetic cause of lupus

Predicting the next coronavirus outbreak

Supporting national needs in high-throughput computing

NCI and NCIG are building the foundation for long-term dynamic consent for genome research

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

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