Funding success: University of Newcastle clinical pharmacologist Professor Jennifer Martin will lead a national approach to medicinal cannabis research.
NEWCASTLE will lead the national approach to research into medicinal cannabis treatments.
The University of Newcastle has been granted $6 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council for various projects.
Of this money, $2.5 million was allocated to setting up the Australian Centre for Cannabinoid Clinical and Research Excellence.
Professor Jennifer Martin said the national infrastructure, governed from Newcastle, could "rapidly translate the [cannabinoid>[/embedp>
