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The University has had enormous success with its funding applications for next year.

More than 75 per cent of new Federal funding for WA research will come to UWA.  Of the total $40 million allocated to our State, $31 million has been awarded to UWA.

Money from the National Health and Medical Research Council will fund some big studies in infants' and children's health.

Just under $2.5 million will help to establish an NHMRC Centre of Excellence, bringing together a dozen UWA academics and their teams from related disciplines to improve the immediate and longer term health outcomes of pre-term infants.

A further $1.6 million NHMRC project grant will extend research in pre-term births.

The UWA Centre for Child Health Research will collaborate with the University of Canberra to try to reduce gastroenteritis in Indigenous children, with funding of $1.2 million.

Obesity, stroke, cystic fibrosis, schizophrenia and prostate cancer research have all attracted major funding for new and ongoing projects.

The NHMRC has also awarded 10 early career fellowships to young UWA academics.

The mining industry will also benefit from nearly half a million dollars for the WA Energy Research Alliance. Six projects on gas pipelines will be run by the researchers in the School of Civil and Resource Engineering and the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems.

Other UWA projects to secure Australian Research Council funding include:  developing fast, accurate, reliable and low-cost ways to ensure recycled water quality; investigating orbits and interactions of satellite galaxies; examining coastal reef wave dynamics; and studying the health benefits of volunteering by seniors.