The CCB was the recipient of 9 grants with a total value of $5,939,942in the recent NHMRC Grant round. With a the success rate was of 32% (about twice the national average) it was particularly encouraging for to see many of its young scientists succeed as well as some of the more established ones. In the ARC 2013 round Associate Professor Natasha Harvey was awarded a prestigious Future Fellowship (Level 2) to study the regulation of lymphatic vessel formation.