{"id":711457,"date":"2026-06-03T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T00:28:09","slug":"australia-china-network-set-to-advance-collaborative-biomedical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/711457\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia-China network set to advance collaborative biomedical research\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEHI\u2019s long history of engagement with institutions in China includes Master and PhD programs, as well as an internship program called InSPIRE, that with the support of the Foundation has brought over 150 outstanding students from leading universities across China to undertake intensive research training at WEHI and partner institutes in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The new initiative is led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehi.edu.au\/researcher\/ivo-mueller\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Ivo Mueller<\/a>, laboratory head and co-head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehi.edu.au\/research\/divisions\/infection-global-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infection and Global Health division<\/a> at WEHI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding on this strong foundation, the WEHI-China Health Research Network will expand our collaborative footprint and offer a fresh framework for deepening engagement with long\u2011standing Chinese partners,\u201d Prof Mueller said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly, in addition to hosting Chinese researchers at WEHI, we will for the first time also support research placements for WEHI students with Chinese partner institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WEHI-China Health Research Network is supported by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Participating institutions:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehi.edu.au\/collaborative-centre\/snow-centre-for-immune-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Snow Centre for Immune Health<\/a>, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Institute of Immune Therapy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Westlake University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEHI\u2019s long history of engagement with institutions in China includes Master and PhD programs, as well as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-711457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}