Stirling Griff (SA, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (the Garvan Institute) is conducting ground-breaking work on cancer, including cancer genomics, which is proving an important approach for rare and high mortality cancers,

(ii) the Garvan Institute has limited access to supercomputers to process big data for precision cancer research, and so has teamed up with the Vodafone Foundation to create a new app, DreamLab, to help it overcome this obstacle,

(iii) the DreamLab app pulls together the processing power of users' smartphones at night and other times the phones sit idle to give Garvan free access to a supercomputer resource,

(iv) the DreamLab app has been available on Android phones since launching last year and, on 23 October 2017, the app will also be available on iPhone,

(v) so far, more than 100,000 Australians have downloaded the application on Android phones, which the Garvan Institute says has helped it fast-track the rate of its cancer research by 50 per cent, and

(vi) the Garvan Institute hopes to encourage 1 million people to download the app, to help it fast¬ track important cancer research; and

(b) calls on all senators to download the DreamLab app on 23 October 2017 and do their part to help propel the Garvan Institute's cancer research capabilities.

Question agreed to.