What is the APF?

The APF is a National node for promoting interactions across disciplines and the pipeline of Australian research and development, and foster international collaborations aimed at maintaining Australian R&D expertise in health, agriculture and biotechnology at the international cutting edge.

The APF is dedicated to providing the national and international academic and commercial scientific community access to genome scale collections of mice with informative point mutations.

The services provided are used by APF customers to rapidly advance the identification of genes and their function as an early step in the process of identifying potential drug targets and animal models of human disease, understanding cellular functions and biochemical process.

The APF differentiates itself from competing methodologies by offering a unique service to Australian research groups. This comes in the form of major scientific discoveries. A spectacular endorsement of the APF capabilities was demonstrated very early in the APF's existence by the major discovery of a novel molecule associated with an autoimmune syndrome. This discovery was elegantly highlighted in May 2005 in an Article in the journal Nature by Dr Carola Vinuesa at The Australian National University and her collaborators in Australia and Oxford, using the APF's technology and services to discover an entirely new health mechanism.

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