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.

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01 Jul 2021

Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts

NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium. Joining the esteemed group as a Collaborating Initiative, known as the

Research Highlights

11 May 2021

A long-term project for improving the health of Indigenous Australians

Health

Australian health care is moving towards using genomics for diagnosing and treating rare diseases and cancers. However, the majority of reference datasets currently available feature mostly European

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Research Highlights

27 Apr 2021

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the 2021 Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG). The highly competitive Grants will allow researchers to work on some

The cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry B featuring the interaction of proteins vital to the binding of COVID-19 to human cells.

Research Highlights

30 Mar 2021

Modelling a potential COVID-19 cure

Biology

Health

Once the COVID virus enters the body, it binds to and enters a cell, and starts producing copies of itself. Each new viral particle that is released can then bind to a new cell, and thus the infection

Research Highlights

27 Oct 2020

The impact of GPUs in modern medicine

Health

UNSW PhD candidate, visiting student at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and bioinformatics tool developer Hasindu Gamaarachchi is using NCI’s heterogenous architecture – its integrated mix of

Research Highlights

31 Aug 2020

Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset

Biology

Health

Genetic medicine in coming years will benefit from the technical innovations that NCI and the Gadi supercomputer are now enabling. The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is refreshing its 4,000

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Research Highlights

20 Apr 2020

Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients

Biology

Health

NCI Australia is supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through the provision of streamlined, prioritised and expedited access to computation and

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Research Highlights

16 Nov 2019

Identifying the many genetic causes of complex human disease

Health

Auto-immune diseases, such as lupus, are frequently genetically complex and can be caused by different mutations in many different genes, making it hard to identify the pathway that leads to these

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Case Studies

24 Jul 2019

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

Research Highlights

06 Nov 2018

Rapid repair and stitchless surgery

Health

A team from the University of Sydney has used the NCI supercomputer to develop a wound repair material that helps speed up healing. The team, led by Professor Tony Weiss, McCaughey Chair in

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.

Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts

A long-term project for improving the health of Indigenous Australians

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

Modelling a potential COVID-19 cure

The impact of GPUs in modern medicine

Reprocessing a highly valuable genomic dataset

Special Announcement: ALCG COVID-19 Special Call Recipients

Identifying the many genetic causes of complex human disease

Health

Rapid repair and stitchless surgery

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