Professor Matthew Kiernan

And we're very keen to have, you know, really greater community involvement and connection.

Yeah, I would say it is.

The other sort of big centers around Australia would be the Florey in Melbourne.

There's the Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane.

And there's the Perrin Institute in Perth.

But I think they're the biggest entities.

Sounds like the biggest one in Sydney, though.

Yeah.

And does government support it?

Well, of course, the government does support it, but times are tough.

And I suppose Neura was established on grant funding.

So National Health and Medical Research Council, so NHMRC and ARC, Australian Research Council, have been very, very successful in grants.

Did you have to apply for those grants?

And at present now, the success rate for grants is about 8% to 10%.

And the funding has really taken a battering, and I was actually pleased in the budget to see an extra $508 million coming towards medical research.

And that had been driven by a campaign through medical research institutes, but also great advocates like Monique Ryan, who'd been pushing forward to try and get the MRFF amount fully released.

But now with, you know, lowering government grants support, researchers have to reach out more to the community.

And what are the best, what are the most successful ways?

Well, the most successful way to fund your research program is have an industry partner.

And industry, you know, they need to make money.