The fifteenth edition of 10 of the Best showcases NHMRC-funded projects completed in 2021. It documents ground-breaking discoveries across a broad spectrum of topics from tackling the physical health outcome gaps for adolescents, preventing ear disease among Indigenous children, early diagnosis of glaucoma and implementing trials to reduce the number of open surgeries during a hysterectomy procedure.
Explore the stories below. A PDF version is available in the Downloads section.
Currently, 2 in 3 Australians are classified as being overweight or obese. This is about 12.5 million adults.
Dr Intan Oldakowska and Dr Matthew Oldakowski have worked for 10 years in biomedical engineering and first spotted an opportunity to…
One in 2 people with glaucoma doesn’t know they have it. And, shockingly, half of these people have had an eye test in the past year.
Knowing the potential impact from this—including diabetes, heart disease and some cancers—Dr Rachel Sutherland could not sit still.
According to Professor Robert Gibson from the University of Adelaide and Professor Maria Makrides from the South Australian Health and…
Professor Amanda Leach, from the Menzies School of Health Research in the Northern Territory, has changed the fundamental understanding…
The strengths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures carry forward enduring resilience and adaptation in the face of complex…
Genomics—technology to sequence the whole genome of an organism—has been Professor Howden’s forte.
Closer to home, there is a stark Australian statistic that troubles Professor Maree Teesson, from the University of Sydney, who has…
According to Professor Andreas Obermair, from the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer at the University of Queensland, too many…