The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre

come Research and Evaluation (CORE) and the ANZ College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM). It has a research staff of approximately 20 researchers and administrators and is involved in the supervision of between 10 and 15 PhD students at any given time. It cooperates with more than 20 eminent or emerging researchers in ANZ who hold positions of adjunct professor or other adjunct appointments. Similarly, it conducts research in collaboration with eminent or emerging international investigators from France, Finland, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, the USA, and Canada with more than 20 such adjunct appointments. Finally, it conducts an advanced training program of yearly rotating senior research fellowships for rapidly emerging world-class young investigators. In 2014, the ANZIC-RC conducted research in almost every aspect of critical care medicine with >20 active grants administered to support multiple projects and >30 grants with ANZIC-RC staff members, adjuncts or affiliates as investigators. Its success in obtaining grants from the NHMRC for specific research projects or centres for excellence development is shown in figure 3 . The publication record of the ANZIC-RC has been outstanding and has been progressively increasing every year since its inception ( fig. 4 ), culminating in the delivery of 134 publications in 2014, of which 121 represented original articles and the presentation of >200 lectures at >100 national and international scientific meetings. ANZIC-RC researchers have repeatedly pubThe Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) is the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and Monash University funded bi-national centre for the development, coordination and execution of multicentre randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in critically ill patients. The output for the ANZIC-RC in this field has led to major changes in the practice of critical care medicine in ANZ and the world, improved patient outcomes and has lowered the cost of health care. In addition, the ANZIC-RC has operated and continues to operate as a major national teaching centre for doctoral, post-doctoral and international clinician researchers in critical care medicine. Finally, it provides methodological, statistical, trial design and logistical assistance to young investigators in ANZ who wish to develop their understanding and career in the field of critical care clinical research. The ANZIC-RC is located within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine of Monash University in its campus at the Alfred Centre ( fig. 1 ) close to the centre of the city of Melbourne and adjacent to the campus of the Alfred Hospital, the major trauma centre in Australia ( fig. 2 ). The ANZIC-RC’s director is Prof. David James (Jamie) Cooper, and Prof. Rinaldo Bellomo assists him as co-director. The ANZIC-RC’s governance relies on regular supervision and meetings of a Board, which includes representatives from Monash University, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Clinical Trials Group (CTG), ANZICS, ANZICS Centre for OutReceived: September 24, 2015 Accepted: October 1, 2015 Published online: November 12, 2015