Newcastle's NSW Regional Health Partners will receive part of the federal government's $218 million investment into translational health research.
The money will be provided over the next ten years in order to guarantee long-term and sustainable impact from the important program.
Director of NSW Regional Health Partners, Professor Christine Jorm, said the research centre ensures that patients receive the benefits of biomedical research as efficiently as possible.
"Without [translational health]... research funding that supports our centre, those discoveries don't impact the lives of patients as soon as they should and not as strong as they could," she said.
Research is currently underway into child obesity reduction, immunisation rates and stroke treatment in rural areas.
Professor Jorm said the funding will go particularly towards fulfilling a need in palliative care research.
"In the coming year, we're doing a large set of work around end of life and palliative care, which are major areas of concern for the community and for commissions, where we haven't had the conversations we need to have yet about how we do those things," she said.
The Hunter-based centre is also looking to improve health services in regional Australia and will receive significant benefit from the ten-year funding scheme.
