Corporate Body
CRC for Eye Research and Technology (1991 - 2003)
- From
- 1 July 1991
Kensington, New South Wales, Australia - To
- 30 June 2003
- Functions
- Medical Research and Pharmaceuticals or Medical Aids
- Alternative Names
- Cooperative Research Centre for Eye Research and Technology
- CRCERT
- Location
- Level 4, North Wing Rupert Myers Building, Gate 14, Barker Street Kensington, New South Wales 2033
Summary
Established in July 1991, the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Eye Research and Technology carried out research into contact lenses and related products, biomaterials, polymers and polymer surface chemistry, ocular physiology and microbiology and optometry.
CRCERT was absorbed in to the Vision CRC which was established in July 2003.
Details
From their Web site, June 2002: "The Cooperative Research Centre for Eye Research and technology (CRCERT) is dedicated to developing better ways of correcting vision. Almost tow thirds of the world's population requires some form of vision correction, and through its dynamic integrated research program, and communication links with international research and industry, CRCERT hopes to contribute to eyecare and the opthalmic industry in Australia and internationally."
Related entries
Timeline
1991 - 2003 CRC for Eye Research and Technology
2003 - o Vision CRC
Participant
Superior
Published resources
Books
- Cooperative Research Centres Program (Australia), CRC Compendium / Cooperative Research Centres Program, Australia (Canberra: Australian government Publishing Service, 1996), 72 pp. Details
Resources
- CRC Compendium / Cooperative Research Centres Program, Australia, 2002, https://www.crc.gov.au/Information/default.aspx. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1471278. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 8 May 2002, Last modified: 23 March 2010