Liverpool. $46.9 million research centre

Minister for Ageing, Justine Elliot, and representatives from the Ingham Health Research Institute have signed a $46.9 million funding agreement at Liverpool Hospital to provide a new, four-storey state-of-the-art research centre through the Federal Government’s Health and Hospitals Fund. Ms Elliot said the centre would be the focal point of research in south-west Sydney, housing 340 researchers. The research groups associated with the institute created the medical emergency teams now used in hospitals around the world. They were also the first to discover the role of stellate cells in pancreatic cancer.