NHMRC grant to John Foster

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Surgery without stitches wins major grant
By Bob Beale, January 28, 2010

A new technology to seal surgical wounds without needles and stitches has been awarded a major Federal Government grant to help its development for delicate brain surgery.

A team led by Associate Professor John Foster of the UNSW Bio/Polymer Research Group (BRG), in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, and Professor Marcus Stoodley a neurosurgeon from Macquarie University, has been awarded $213,000 as one of only 17 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Development Grants.

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