A multi-million dollar investment by Griffith University to establish a world leading cancer research centre is now challenging traditional approaches to cancer testing and treatments.
The Institute for Glycomics at the University’s Gold Coast campus is now home to the newly-established Australian Centre for Cancer Glycomics.
Griffith University Vice Chancellor and President Professor Ian O’Connor said more than 7 million dollars has been invested in the new centre, the only one of its kind in Australia.
“Our researchers are pushing the boundaries in biomedical research and working towards the discovery of new cancer diagnostics, drugs and vaccines which will have global impact,” Professor O’Connor said.
Local Federal Member and Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment the Honourable Steven Ciobo MP has toured the Institute and appreciates the wide-ranging impacts the centre has to offer.
Minister Ciobo said the Gold Coast is now attracting the world’s premier biomedical scientists in this highly specialised field
“This Centre is
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