The Chief Investigators are drawn from every state in Australia and contribute complementary expertise in basic hormone research, bioinformatics, high throughput analyses, human tissue research, animal models, national biorepositories and clinical endocrinology. All are embedded in academic and clinical locations and all hold peer-reviewed grants from national or international funding agencies. All head their own research groups in their individual institutions and hold leadership positions within those institutions. All Chief Investigators bring teams of multidisciplinary researchers from their institutions to the project.
The NRBC collaboration is a discovery project that is heavily reliant on a knowledge infrastructure comprising of:
- capture, storage and integration of data
- data mirroring (for the up-to-date integration with public domain data)
- data mining (literature reviews to gain a full corpus of public domain information)
- ontology and vocabulary development and maintenance (systems for biological data structures using public domain ontologies and local extensions)
- meta data analysis
- web portal (to share data and information across project teams and nodes)
The Chief Investigators are valuable members of Institutes affiliated with the academic tertiary institutions of The University of Sydney, The University of Queensland, The University of Adelaide, The University of Western Australia and Monash University.
