Annual Scientific Day Grant Recipient Winners for Research & Equipment Funding - 2011

Grant Recipients for 2011:

• Effects of vitamin D in the management of childhood atopic dermatitis on T regulatory cells
  Dr B Nanan
• Association between fetal thymus growth and fetal immunological parameters
  Ms A E Quinton
• Influence of coronary artery disease on the blood levels of circulating cardiac related microRNAs
  Dr SH Huang
• Bone densitometer for clinical studies at Sydney Medical School Nepean Campus
  Dr O Demontiero
• Is human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) a potential new prognostic marker and novel therapeutic target for
  oesophageal cancer
  Associate Professor GD Eslick and Professor MR Cox
• Development of a new biomarker for the diagnosis of frailty in older persons – the Nepean osteoporosis and frailty (NOF) study
  Dr C Vidal
• Comparison of the diagnostic performance of serum levels of cardiac related microRNAs and troponin T in detecting acute
  myocardial injury in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care unit
  Professor A McLean
• Study of the differential expession of P2X7 splice variants in normal B cells and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells
  Dr S Fuller and Ms K Skarratt