NHMRC Research Funding
19 October 2012
Professor Warwick Anderson, Chief Executive of the NHMRC at the University of Sydney
A significant increase in funding for research in infectious diseases and for clinical trials were underpinned Sydney Medical School’s success in National Health and Medical Research Council grants, announced today.
In all, The University of Sydney was awarded 101 grants and fellowships, valued at $66 million. Of those, Sydney Medical School was awarded 87 grants and fellowships.
In infectious diseases, total funding secured was in excess of $11 million, said Professor Tania Sorrell, head of the Sydney Emerging Infections and Biosecurity Institute (SEIB) and was a clear example of the quality of the research.
The Hon Tanya Plibersek with Professor Karen Waters who received $990,144 for her investigation into childhood sleep apnoea.
Among the 68 project grants, Professor Guy Marks (Central Clinical School) and Professor Bruce Neal (George Institute) each secured $3.4 million – Guy Marks for his work in tuberculosis and Bruce Neal to fund a trial to determine the effects of salt reduction on vascular disease.
The announcement of funding was made by the Minister for Health, the Hon Tanya Plibersek and Professor Warwick Anderson, Chief Executive of the NHMRC at the University of Sydney.
The full list of grant outcomes listed below is also available as a PDF document.
Read the University news item.
| NHMRC Grant Outcomes 19 October 2012 University of Sydney | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian/EU Collaborative Research Grant (One (1)) | ||||
| Professor Kathryn North | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Aust/EU Collaborative Research Grant | Improving health outcomes for chronic rare diseases and reducing inequality of care | $614,128 |
| Total $614,128 | ||||
| Career Development Fellowships (three (3)) | ||||
| Dr Sandra Cooper | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
RD Wright Biomedical CDF | Dysferlin coordinates membrane repair for skeletal and cardiac injury | $439,920 |
| Associate Professor Barend Marais | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Clinical CDF | Tuberculosis transmission and drug resistance in Australia and the Asian Pacific region | $278,407 |
| Professor Stephanie Watson | Medicine Central Clinical School |
Clinical CDF | Novel therapies to treat blinding corneal disease | $159,090 |
| Total $877,416 | ||||
| Early Career Fellowships (Australia) (eight (8)) | ||||
| Associate Professor David Peiris | Medicine George Institute for International Health |
Primary Health Care ECF | Multi-faceted e-health interventions for primary health care | $359,564 |
| Dr Caroline Medi | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Australian Clinical Research ECF | Gene carriers in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | $359,564 |
| Dr Qi Zhou | Pharmacy | Peter Doherty Biomedical ECF | Inhaled antibiotic aerosols for treatment of respiratory infections | $299,564 |
| Dr Daniel Johnstone | Medicine School of Medical Sciences – Bosch Institute |
Peter Doherty Biomedical ECF | Testing safe and simple treatments for preventing brain and eye disease | $299,564 |
| Mrs Emily Callander | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Public Health (Australia) ECF | Ill health and long term living standards | $299,564 |
| Dr Gulam Khandaker | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Health Professional Research ECF | Causes and consequences of acute encephalitis in children | $251,695 |
| Ms Samantha Lain | Medicine Northern Clinical School – Kolling Institute |
Australian Research Training ECF (Part-time) | Infant thyroid hormone levels and long-term child educational outcomes | $149,782 |
| Dr Trudy Rebbeck | Health Sciences Physiotherapy |
Health Professional Research ECF | Assisting recovery in neck pain, whiplash and headache | $149,782 |
| Total $2,169,079 | ||||
| Early Career Fellowships (Overseas) (seven (7)) | ||||
| Dr Gregory Fox | Medicine Central Clinical School |
CJ Martin Biomedical ECF | The global impacts of drug resistant tuberculosis | $401,188 |
| Dr Isuru Ranasinghe | Medicine Concord Clinical School |
Neil Hamilton Fairley Clinical ECF | Performance and Delivery of Cardiovascular Health Services | $389,860 |
| Mr Monkol Lek | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
CJ Martin Biomedical ECF | Improving the genetic diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders | $338,836 |
| Dr Rachael Morton | Medicine School of Public Health |
Sidney Sax Public Health ECF | The impact of socio-economic status on the management and progression of chronic kidney disease | $337,324 |
| Dr Aaron McGrath | Science School of Molecular Bioscience |
CJ Martin Biomedical ECF | Determining the Molecular Basis of Tumour Cell Multidrug Resistance: Structural and Functional Analysis of Breast Cancer Resistance Protein | $325,396 |
| Dr Stefan Oehlers | Medicine Central Clinical School - Centenary Institute |
CJ Martin Biomedical ECF | Mycobacterial control of the establishment and outcome of infection | $311,956 |
| Dr David Chapman | Medicine Central Clinical School |
CJ Martin Biomedical ECF | Understanding steroid-resistance in severe asthma | $307,468 |
| Total $2,412,028 | ||||
| Established Career Fellowships (seven (7)) | ||||
| Professor Ian Hickie | Medicine Brain & Mind Research Institute |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | Testing and delivering early interventions for young people with depression | $883,375 |
| Professor MacDonald Christie | Medicine School of Medical Sciences – Pharmacology |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | Developing novel neuroreceptor and channel therapies for pain and addiction | $808,375 |
| Dr Linda Bendall | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | Improving Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | $590,785 |
| Associate Professor Amanda Sainsbury-Salis | Medicine BIONE: Boden Institute |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | Improving weight loss outcomes | $590,785 |
| Dr Swee Aw | Medicine Central Clinical School |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | 6th Year - Uncoupled Research Fellowship* | $118,157 |
| Dr Patrick Bertolino | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | 6th Year - Uncoupled Research Fellowship | $118,157 |
| Associate Professor Beric Henderson | Science School of Molecular Bioscience |
NHMRC Research Fellowship | 6th Year - Uncoupled Research Fellowship | $118,157 |
| *This is a bridging fellowship | Total $3,227,791 | |||
| NHMRC Partnership (One (1)) | ||||
| Professor Deborah Schofield | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Partnership Project for Better Health | Improving decision making on health interventions | $609,900 |
| Total $609,900 | ||||
| Practitioner Fellowships (three (3)) | ||||
| Associate Professor Maria Craig | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Practitioner Fellowship | Childhood diabetes: translating evidence into practice | $444,014 |
| Professor Richard Scolyer | Medicine Central Clinical School - Pathology |
Practitioner Fellowship | Molecular determinants of progression and treatment response in melanoma | $444,014 |
| Professor David Little | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead |
Practitioner Fellowship | Practitioner Fellowship | $380,583 |
| Total $1,268,610 | ||||
| Project Grants – New Investigator (three (3)) | ||||
| Dr Masaomi Kato | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
New Investigator Grant | MicroRNAs and Ageing | $553,143 |
| Dr Guangda Feng | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
New Investigator Grant | Dissecting in vivo cellular responses to interferons in pathogen-infected hosts | $463,139 |
| Dr Anthony Cesare | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
New Investigator Grant | How cells with damaged telomeres make an orderly exit from the cell proliferation cycle | $292,181 |
| Total $1,308,463 | ||||
| Project Grants – standard (68) | ||||
| Professor Guy Marks | Medicine Central Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Community-wide active case finding for tuberculosis | $3,422,325 |
| Professor Bruce Neal | Medicine George Institute for International Health |
Standard Project Grant | A randomised trial to determine the effects of salt reduction on vascular disease | $3,410,985 |
| Professor Vlado Perkovic | Medicine George Institute for International Health |
Standard Project Grant | SIGNAL Trial | $2,681,619 |
| Professor William Tarnow-Mordi | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Standard Project Grant | The Lactoferrin Infant Feeding Trial (LIFT) | $2,203,171 |
| Associate Professor Trevor Leong | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Standard Project Grant | The TOPGEAR trial; trial of preoperative therapy for gastric and esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma | $1,974,558 |
| Associate Professor David Peiris | Medicine George Institute for International Health |
Standard Project Grant | Consumer Navigation of Electronic Cardiovascular Tools - The CONNECT study | $1,852,716 |
| Professor Jonathan Craig | Medicine School of Public Health |
Standard Project Grant | ARDAC Third Phase Study | $1,816,455 |
| Professor Richard Lindley | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | The ATTEND Trial | $1,533,894 |
| Associate Professor Linda Mileshkin | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Standard Project Grant | The OUTBACK trial - the role of adjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced cervical cancer | $1,472,782 |
| Dr Clara Chow | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | TEXTMEDS | $1,360,167 |
| Professor Anthony Keech | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Standard Project Grant | FIELD LIFE: Lifestyle Interactions in Fenofibrate and the Epigenome | $1,071,754 |
| Professor Karen Waters | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Does treatment of OSA improve IQ in preschool children? | $990,144 |
| Dr Lisa Keay | Medicine Central Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Understanding the impact of cataract vision impairment on risk of falling | $775,262 |
| Associate Professor Vitali Sintchenko | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Towards TB elimination in Australia | $772,199 |
| Dr Sandra Cooper | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Dysferlin mediates membrane repair for skeletal and cardiac injury | $755,955 |
| Professor Martin Tattersall | Medicine Central Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Advance care planning in incurable cancer patients with disease progression on first line chemotherapy: a randomised trial | $745,946 |
| Dr Nicholas Wood | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Q fever: How common is it and how can we best prevent it? Research to inform Q fever vaccine policy in Australia and Internationally | $721,151 |
| Professor Ian Campbell | Science School of Molecular Bioscience |
Standard Project Grant | Role of strawberry notch in neuroinflammation | $704,268 |
| Professor Jonathan Iredell | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Ecological effects of antibiotics | $702,992 |
| Dr Nicholas Wood | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Febrile seizures following vaccination in children: How common are they and what is the long term clinical outcome? | $672,385 |
| Professor Roland Stocker | Medicine School of Medical Sciences – Bosch Institute |
Standard Project Grant | From iron to saving limbs - how a protein recycling body iron prevents amputation by reprogramming cellular energy metabolism in tissues with limited oxygen supply | $666,587 |
| Professor Sally Tracy | Nursing | Standard Project Grant | Amniotic Fluid Lactate Study | $657,430 |
| Dr Linda Bendall | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Increasing sensitivity to chemotherapy by disrupting leukemic cell interactions with the bone marrow | $649,658 |
| Professor Barbara Fazekas de St Groth | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Dendritic cell-mediated induction of T cell tolerance | $632,128 |
| Professor Christopher Little | Medicine Northern Clinical School – Kolling Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Inflammation and osteoarthritis | $632,128 |
| Associate Professor Jane Hanrahan | Pharmacy | Standard Project Grant | Modulation of GABA-A Receptors | $628,237 |
| Professor Kate White | Nursing | Standard Project Grant | Improving outcomes for patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy through a shared care pathway intervention | $623,887 |
| Associate Professor Peter Meikle | Health Sciences Medical Radiation Sciences |
Standard Project Grant | Predicting Response to Fenofibrate Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes | $621,134 |
| Dr Chung-Wei Christine Lin | Medicine George Institute for International Health |
Standard Project Grant | PRECISE: pregabalin in addition to usual care for sciatica | $618,589 |
| Professor Warwick Britton | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Improving TB vaccines for pulmonary delivery | $615,221 |
| Professor Graeme Stewart | Medicine Westmead Clinical School - WMI |
Standard Project Grant | Clinical significance of IL7R genotype | $606,768 |
| Professor Phillip Robinson | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School - CMRI |
Standard Project Grant | Phosphorylation of synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2 (SV2) regulates endocytosis of synaptotagmin for synaptic transmission | $592,143 |
| Professor Wolfgang Weninger | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Dermal innate lymphoid cells in skin immunity | $588,253 |
| Professor Merrilyn Walton | Medicine School of Public Health |
Standard Project Grant | An investigation of the patient experience of adverse events | $587,543 |
| Associate Professor Marina Kennerson | Medicine Concord Clinical School - ANZAC |
Standard Project Grant | Finding Genes for Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) Neuropathy | $585,347 |
| Associate Professor James Triccas | Medicine Central Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | New vaccines to prevent tuberculosis | $573,628 |
| Professor David Harris | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | ß-catenin in profibrotic and anti-inflammatory effects of TGF-ß | $572,643 |
| Professor Tania Sorrell | Medicine - SEIB |
Standard Project Grant | Pathogenesis of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis | $567,768 |
| Professor Christopher Semsarian | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Genetic Basis of Sudden Death in Epilepsy | $555,431 |
| Professor Roger Reddel | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School - CMRI |
Standard Project Grant | A new method used by cancer cells to escape the normal limits on proliferation | $546,347 |
| Professor Mark Gillies | Medicine Northern Clinical School – Surgery |
Standard Project Grant | The contribution of aberrant Wnt signalling to neuronal and vascular pathology in retinal disease | $541,967 |
| Dr Danuta Kalinowski | Medicine School of Medical Sciences – Pathology |
Standard Project Grant | Pharmacologically Implementing Albumin as a Carrier of a Novel Chemotherapeutic | $541,472 |
| Professor Paul Groundwater | Pharmacy | Standard Project Grant | Methods for the Rapid Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria | $523,375 |
| Dr David Wang | Medicine Central Clinical School – Sleep Medicine |
Standard Project Grant | The effect of morphine on obstructive sleep apnea | $515,779 |
| Associate Professor Ulrike Grunert | Medicine Central Clinical School – Save Sight Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Study of nerve cells in the eyes of humans | $508,283 |
| Professor Anthony Cunningham | Medicine Westmead Clinical School - WMI |
Standard Project Grant | Herpes simplex virus immunity in skin | $504,552 |
| Dr Christopher Jolly/td> | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Role of uracil-DNA glycosylases in oncogenic translocation | $495,295 |
| Associate Professor Adam Guastella | Medicine Brain & Mind Research Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Oxytocin as a treatment for toddlers with autism | $494,012 |
| Associate Professor David Booth | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Vitamin D genes and Multiple Sclerosis | $491,897 |
| Professor Jacob George | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | ARL6IP5 in HCV-related liver cancer | $487,847 |
| Dr Natasha Nassar | Medicine Northern Clinical School – Kolling Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Infant thyroid hormone levels and long-term child educational outcomes | $476,257 |
| Professor Michael Murray | Pharmacy | Standard Project Grant | CYP2J2, phase II enzymes and drug resistance in tumours | $470,480 |
| Associate Professor Beric Henderson | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Novel mechanisms of beta-catenin nuclear import in cancer | $469,484 |
| Professor Jacob George | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Obesity and cholesterol promote liver disease | $420,498 |
| Professor Bernard Balleine | Medicine Brain & Mind Research Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Pathological actions and the amygdala | $416,962 |
| Professor Christopher Semsarian | Medicine Central Clinical School – Centenary Institute |
Standard Project Grant | New Gene Discovery in Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy | $404,050 |
| Professor Roger Reddel | Medicine Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School - CMRI |
Standard Project Grant | Molecular analysis of a recently discovered process of rapid shortening of chromosome ends | $389,681 |
| Emeritus Professor Ian Curthoys | Science School of Psychology |
Standard Project Grant | Comprehensive clinical tests of balance function to track vestibular compensation and Meniere’s Disease | $377,310 |
| Professor Jonathan Iredell | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Rapid detection of antibiotic resistance in Enterobacteriaceae | $372,619 |
| Professor Grantley Gill | Medicine School of Public Health – NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre |
Standard Project Grant | SNAC1: A randomised trial of sentinel node based management versus axillary clearance for women with small breast cancers | $366,663 |
| Dr Elena Bagley | Medicine School of Medical Sciences – Pharmacology |
Standard Project Grant | Endogenous opioids in the amygdala | $365,223 |
| Dr Laura Corbit | Science School of Psychology |
Standard Project Grant | Enhancing Extinction of Alcohol-Predictive Stimuli to Reduce Relapse Risk | $361,750 |
| Associate Professor Renae Ryan | Medicine School of Medical Sciences – Pharmacology |
Standard Project Grant | Glutamate transporters: the vacuum cleaners of the brain | $360,431 |
| Dr Yuanyuan Ge | Medicine Central Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Cancer radiotherapy 2020: accounting for tumour deformation in real time to improve treatment outcome | $358,795 |
| Dr Daniel Brown | Medicine Brain & Mind Research Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Investigation into the Physiological Mechanism Underlying Vertigo Attacks in Meniere's Disease | $302,742 |
| Associate Professor Liza Thomas | Medicine Westmead Clinical School |
Standard Project Grant | Chemotherapy and cardiotoxicity | $260,102 |
| Professor David Handelsman | Medicine Concord Clinical School - ANZAC |
Standard Project Grant | Ultrasensitive LC-MS Estradiol Assay | $234,201 |
| Dr Natasha Nassar | Medicine Northern Clinical School – Kolling Institute |
Standard Project Grant | Prenatal origins and outcomes of male reproductive disorders | $226,943 |
| Total $53,500,268 | ||||