A Perspective on 10-Years HTS Experience at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - Eighteen Million Assays and Counting

Grants

Funding Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the Victorian State Government for their initial investment via the Strategic Technology Initiative and Bio21 Australia Ltd. The early and ongoing support of Professor Suzanne Cory (WEHI Director from 1996-2009) and Professor Douglas Hilton ( WEHI Director from 2009-Present) is also warmly acknowledged. We gratefully acknowledge the contribution of all members of the WEHI HTS and Medicinal Chemistry Groups, past and present, particularly Keith Watson and John Parisot. We thank our division heads, Peter Colman, David Huang and Liam O'Connor, along with Julian Clark and the WEHI Business Development Office for their guidance and support over the years. Projects discussed have benefited from various granting schemes including the NH&MRC Program, Project and Development granting funding schemes, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Cancer Australia, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation, Australian Federal Government's Cooperative Research Centre scheme, UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO special program for research and training in tropical diseases, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative and Therapeutic Innovation Australia, and the Australian Government's Super Science Initiative financed from the Education Investment Fund. We are appreciative of Moana Simpson and the Queensland Compound Library, which is a recipient of funding from the Queensland Government "Smart State Research Facilities Fund" and Australian Government funding, provided under the "Super Science Initiative" and financed from the Education Investment Fund.