The state government is giving cancer research in NSW a multi-million dollar boost to try to better understand the deadly disease.
Medical Research Minister Jillian Skinner said $3.5 million in new funding was being allocated to NSW cancer researchers investigating cancer cells in the hope of finding new treatments.
Ms Skinner said the 11 successful grant applicants included projects to look at brain cancer in children, advanced lung cancer, melanoma, profiling the DNA of cancer patients and mobile breast cancer imaging.
"This $3.5 million investment in equipment and infrastructure will assist our cancer researchers to enhance the quality and scope of their work," she said in a statement on Wednesday.
The funded technology includes a storage facility for the Garvan Institute to house thousands of patient genomes, and a device allowing University of Sydney researchers to simultaneously measure more than 40 characteristics of individual cells.
