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Linkage Grant Success for Synthetic Biologists
4, Jun 2026

Linkage Grant Success for Synthetic Biologists

Researchers from the Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology have secured $2 million in ARC Linkage grant funds for projects spanning waste conversion, environmental conservation, and food security.   [caption...

Synbio win for new biotech commercialisation grants
9, Mar 2026

Synbio win for new biotech commercialisation grants

Four synthetic biology companies have received support from the NSW Government’s $20 million Emerging Technologies Fund. Swan Genomics, Number 8 Bio, All G, HydGene Renewables all received funding from a...

Sensor Technologies to Detect Harmful Pollutants
2, Feb 2026

Sensor Technologies to Detect Harmful Pollutants

Dr Elena Eremeeva has been awarded two new grants to advance the development of portable sensor technologies aimed at detecting harmful pollutants. One is focused on smoke taint in wine...

Unlocking bacterial secrets to boost biotech and fight superbugs
26, Nov 2025

Unlocking bacterial secrets to boost biotech and fight superbugs

Macquarie University researcher Dr Liping Li has secured a prestigious DECRA grant to investigate how bacteria wake up from dormancy, a discovery that could revolutionise biotechnology and help tackle antimicrobial...

Engineering bacteria to be tiny miners
24, Nov 2025

Engineering bacteria to be tiny miners

A Centre researcher is part of an ambitious international project that could revolutionise the way we extract the precious metals used in smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines. A team...

Outstanding year for ARC Discovery Grants
30, Oct 2025

Outstanding year for ARC Discovery Grants

In a bumper year for synthetic biology, eight Centre teams have been awarded Australian Research Council Discovery grants for projects ranging from improving protein switches to creating new-to-nature silks. Centre...

Feeding the Future: Cracking the Code of Cyanobacteria Growth
29, Oct 2025

Feeding the Future: Cracking the Code of Cyanobacteria Growth

Scientists worldwide are cultivating cyanobacteria in bioreactors as a sustainable source of biofuels, cosmetics and advanced materials. But the challenge is that fully understanding all the feedstocks they could use...

QUT researchers secure $1.2m AEA grant to turn sugarcane waste into high-value fragrances
11, Jul 2025

QUT researchers secure $1.2m AEA grant to turn sugarcane waste into high-value fragrances

Centre researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) node have successfully secured a prestigious $1.2 million Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Innovate Grant to bring their research closer to market....

$13 million grant to develop first synthetic plant chromosome
19, Jun 2025

$13 million grant to develop first synthetic plant chromosome

Courtesy of Macquarie University’s Lighthouse. Story by Fran Molloy  The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has awarded a major international grant to Macquarie University researchers to develop synthetic...

Bioplatforms Australia Backs High-Calibre Omics Projects
28, May 2025

Bioplatforms Australia Backs High-Calibre Omics Projects

All 15 applications for Bioplatforms Australia $25,000 Omics grants have been successful. 'This is an important scheme for the Centre's emerging researchers to use innovative omics techniques to solve some...

Centre startups secure AEA grants
12, Mar 2025

Centre startups secure AEA grants

Four startups from the Centre have successfully secured Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) Ignite Grants, providing a shot in the arm for the local synthetic biology ecosystem. NewEra Bio, Levur, Swan...

Innovative vaccine technology targets Alzheimers
29, Jan 2025

Innovative vaccine technology targets Alzheimers

A multidisciplinary team is developing therapeutics that creatively combine nano-medicine and synthetic biology. Centre member Dr Andrew Care is part of a multidisciplinary team that is engineering an innovative vaccine...