{"id":4720,"date":"2016-12-06T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/?p=4720"},"modified":"2021-08-02T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T08:42:39","slug":"nhmrc-funding-boost-for-australias-largest-clinical-aspirin-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/nhmrc-funding-boost-for-australias-largest-clinical-aspirin-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"NHMRC Funding Boost for Australia\u2019s Largest Clinical Aspirin Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Australian Government funding for ASPREE Completion<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The ASPREE Clinical Trial received more than $5.5 million in the latest round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhmrc.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Health and Medical Research Council<\/a> (NHMRC) grants\u00a0announced by Minister for Health and Aged Care, Hon Sussan Ley, at Monash University on 3rd December 2016.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-4721\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/NHMRC-funding-ASPREE-2016-edited-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Grey haired, man in a suit is talking in front of TV microphones next to a women dressed in a dark suit. They stand in front of NHMRC and Monash University banners\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/NHMRC-funding-ASPREE-2016-edited-683x1024-1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/NHMRC-funding-ASPREE-2016-edited-683x1024-1-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 683px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption>ASPREE Principal Investigator, Prof John McNeil (above) with the Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Sussan Ley after announcing $4.7 million of federal funding to complete the ASPREE study.<br \/><br \/><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The ASPREE Completion Project and an aspirin in prevention of colorectal cancer study made the top five highest Monash University NHMRC funded projects.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Both grants will enable ASPREE to answer important questions about the effect of aspirin on disease prevention, including the long-term effect of aspirin or colorectal (bowel) cancer, in older adults.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>ASPREE is the first primary prevention trial in the world to weigh the potential benefits versus the risks of daily low-dose (100 mg) aspirin in healthy older adults.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains the second most common type of cancer in Australia, with over 17,070 new cases diagnosed and 4,110 deaths recorded in 2015.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Updated 23.04.2021<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding boost to complete the ASPREE clinical trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1200","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,16],"tags":[51,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}