A MEDICAL research centre in Sydney's southwest could lead to groundbreaking new treatments for cancer and other diseases, Prime Minister Julia Gillard says.
At the official opening of the Ingham Institute's new home at Liverpool Hospital on Tuesday, Ms Gillard said she hoped to see more Australian discoveries such as the anti-cancer Gardasil vaccine.
"It is this kind of research that we need and has been done in the past that we can do in the future," Ms Gillard said.
The institute, which was founded in 1996 by chicken farmer and businessman Bob Ingham AO, received almost $47 million in federal funding in 2009 to help complete the new centre at the hospital - the first medical research centre in the region.
The centre has more than 200 researchers working on seven disease areas, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, trauma and injury and mental health.
Clinicians, researchers, nurses and students will also be able to get hands-on training at a simulation centre, set to be completed later this year.
The institute is also pioneering new MRI-Linac cancer treatment technology, one of only three in the world, which can more accurately locate tumours during a treatment session.
"We have never been able to do that before," the institute's Research Director Professor Michael Barton OAM said.
He said it was one of only three currently under development in the world and will place Liverpool at the centre of world's best practice for radiation treatment.
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