Sydney Bridging Support Grants 2009
| CI Name | Faculty | School/Dept | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Mark Adams | Agriculture | Sciences | Carbon in high country ecosystems | $15,000.00 |
| A/Prof Mary Roberts | Arts | Letters: Art History & Theory | Peripheral Horizons: Reinterpreting Orientalist visual culture through a comparative study of women's Orientalism in Australia, the USA and Europe, 1855-1914. | $40,000.00 |
| Prof Timothy Fitzpatrick | Arts | Letters: Performance Studies | Rehearsal in Europe until the advent of the director | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Alastair Blanshard | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | Classical monsters in the Western imagination | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Andrew Hartwig | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | Plato Comicus and Greek comedy: a study of his dramatic career | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Julia Horne | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | Australia's Universities, Nation-Building and Social Access, 1942-2007 | $15,000.00 |
| Ms Frances Muecke | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | The Invention of Rome: Flavio Biondo's Roma triumphans and its Legacy | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Jadran Mimica | Arts | Political & Soc Sciences: Anthropology | Creativity and Erosion in Language and Mythic Thought: A Study of Verbal Art and Cosmological Change in Papua New Guinea | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Benjamin Goldsmith | Arts | Political & Soc Sciences: Government & International Relations | Quantitative Conflict Analysis: Machine Learning and Econometrics | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Timothy Winter | Arts | Political & Soc Sciences: Sociology & Social Policy | The role of cultural heritage in conflict transformation societies | $40,000.00 |
| Prof Mehmet Darendeliler | Dentistry | Dentistry | Modelling and Prediction of Orthodontic Root Resorption | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Neil Hunter | Dentistry | Dentistry | Regulation of the permeability of oral epithelia by CD24 | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Neil Hunter | Dentistry | Dentistry | Binding of blood group antigens mediated by the Lys-gingipain of porphyromonas gingivalis | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Nicolas de Roos | Economics and Business | Economics | The Determinants of Petrol Prices in Australia | $15,000.00 |
| Dr John Shields | Economics and Business | Work & Organisational Studies | Taking the measure of pay: a multi-country, multi-level quantative study | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Ahmad Jabbarzadeh-Khoei | Engineering | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | Lubrication at the atomic scale | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Qing Li | Engineering | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | CFD Driven Topological Design for Coronary Stents | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Hans Coster | Engineering | Chemical & Biomolecular Eng | Robust and sensitive Bio-FET sensors utilising organic-effect nanostructures covalently bound to silicon | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Andrew Harris | Engineering | Chemical & Biomolecular Eng | Carbon nanotube functionalisation | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Marjorie Valix | Engineering | Chemical & Biomolecular Eng | Bioleaching e-wastes to recover resources | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Giang Nguyen | Engineering | Civil Engineering | A non-local approach to the modelling of rock fracture | $20,000.00 |
| Mr Zhendong Zhou | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Cooperative Relay Broadcast Techniques and Their Applications in Wireless Broadband Communications | $20,000.00 |
| Prof Jon Patrick | Engineering | Schl Information Technologies | Semantic Concept Identification for Information Extraction in Clinical Reports | $15,000.00 |
| Prof Albert Zomaya | Engineering | Schl Information Technologies | Parallel Algorithms for mobility management | $15,000.00 |
| Ms Lindy Clemson | Health Sciences | Occupation & Leisure Sciences | Pre-discharge home visits are superior to hospital consultations for at-risk older people: The HOME trial | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Sharon Kilbreath | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | Clinical correlates of lymphoedema | $50,000.00 |
| A/Prof Michelle Lincoln | Health Sciences | Speech Pathology | Mouth asymettry in adults and children who do and do not stutter | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Fleur Johns | Law | Law | Power, Rule and Consensus in the Mekong River Basin: The Dynamics of 'Hard' and 'Soft' Law in Transboundary Water Governance | $20,000.00 |
| Ms Rosemary Lyster | Law | Law | Developing a legal Framework in Indonesia's participation in an internationally sanctioned scheme for reducing Emissions from Deforestation (and Degradation) | $50,000.00 |
| A/Prof Gregory Tolhurst | Law | Law | Modernising and Codifying Australian Sale of Goods Law | $20,000.00 |
| Mr Adam Guastella | Medicine | Brain & Mind Research Institut | The effect of Oxytocin on the processing of positive and threatening social cues | $20,000.00 |
| Prof Michael Davies | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Mechanisms and control of iron accumulation in atherosclerotic lesions | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Gary Halliday | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Loss of Brm and Brg-1 are key events in human skin carcinogenesis | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Simon Hawke | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Targeting prion protein with monoclonal antibodies and lentivirus delivered shRNA as treatment for prion diseases | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Susan Hayes | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Continuation study of intellectual disability in courts and police cells | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Alison Heather | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Development of a new highly sensitive and robust yeast androgen bioassay for the detection of designer androgens | $15,000.00 |
| Mr Christopher Jolly | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Understanding AID-induced cancer: Unravelling complex mutation and repair pathways | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Kenneth Rodgers | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Stabilising atherosclerotic plaques using HDL apopliproteins | $50,000.00 |
| Associate Prof John Sullivan | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Studies of natural anti-influenza immunity and blood donors who possess Neutralizing Avian H5N1 Antibodies | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Robert Booy | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead: Paediatrics & Child Health | Simple, observer-blinded randomised trial to prevent proven influenza in young children | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Megan Fabbro | Medicine | Children's Medical Research Institute | Understanding the molecular requirements of the endocytic machinery for mammalian cytokinesis | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Weiyong Shen | Medicine | Clinical Opthalmology | Regulation of bone marrow progenitor cells for treatment of diabetic retinopathy | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Stephen Clarke | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Individualised treatment for cancer patients: Impact of tumour-derived cytokines on drug clearance pathways in cancer | $50,000.00 |
| CI Name | Faculty | School/Dept | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Kirsty Walters | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Androgen mechanisms in female reproduction | $50,000.00 |
| Mr Luke Henderson | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Anatomy & Histology | Brain Circuitry Underlying Endogenous Pain Modulation in Humans | $50,000.00 |
| Mr Adam Guastella | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Brain & Mind Research Institut | D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Psychological Treatments for young Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Janette Burgess | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Pharmacology | Interaction of CTFG and VEGF: a co-partner binding model regulating blood vessel formation | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Rachel Codd | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Pharmacology | A Trilateral Approach in Chemical Biology to Isolate Siderophores with Potential Antitumour Properties | $15,000.00 |
| Prof Christopher Liddle | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Pharmacology | Role of steroidogenic factor-1 and endogenous steriodgenesis in the function of the hepatic stellate cell | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Catherine Leamey | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Physiology | The role Ten_m3 in patterning ipsilateral retinal projections | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Charlotte Rees | Medicine | Medicine Faculty Office | Learning to learn together: Patient-student-tutor interaction during medical workplace learning encounters | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Kerrie McDonald | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | The role of IQGAP1 in actively migrating glioma cells and its regulation by MiR-124 | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Philip Sambrook | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of biophosphnate therapy in osteonecrosis of the hip. | $50,000.00 |
| Ms Meilang Xue | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Activated Protein C suppresses the abnormal immune response in rheumatoid arthritis | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Robert Baxter | Medicine | Northern Clinical School: Kolling Institute of Medical Research | Protein discovery for breast cancer diagnosis | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Christopher Maher | Medicine | The George Institute for International Health | Diagnosis of the disc as a source of low back pain | $50,000.00 |
| Ms Julianne Djordjevic | Medicine | Western Clinical School | The fungal phospholipase B pathway and virulence | $50,000.00 |
| Prof David Harris | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Preventing kidney fibrosis by targeting MMP-9 in Cronic Kidney Diseases | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Nicholas Manolios | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Peptide-Lipid interactions: Effect of cellular milieu on biophysical properties of transmembrane peptides | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Leanne Williams | Medicine | Western Clinical School: Psychological Medicine | INTEGRATE: Intervention Trial: Emotional and General cogniotion and Treatment in Early schizophrenia | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Mary Bebawy | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Microparticle Mediated Transfer of P-glycoprotein in Conferring Multidrug Resistance in Cancer | $50,000.00 |
| CI Name | Faculty | School/Dept | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Mary Collins | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Structure and dynamidcs of the GABA-C ligand-binding domain | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Daniela Traini | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Direct Measurements of Interparticulate Forces and Collodial Stability in Pressurised Systems | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Paul Young | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Rapid inhaler prototyping and development | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Dieter Hochuli | Science | Biological Sciences | Leaf traits of angophora costata in isolated urban remnants | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Clare McArthur | Science | Biological Sciences | Abiotic influences on plants | $15,000.00 |
| Prof Trevor Hambley | Science | Chemistry | Optimising the macroscopic and cellular uptake of anticancer drugs in solid tumours | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Trevor Hambley | Science | Chemistry | Targeting MMPS in CNS disorders | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Vincent Ladmiral | Science | Chemistry | Mulitfunctional hybrid nanoparticles from living polymerisation | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Christopher Ling | Science | Chemistry | Novel oxide-ion conductors for fuel cell membranes | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Sebastien Perrier | Science | Chemistry | Hybrid copolymers self-assemblies directed by peptides | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Timothy Schmidt | Science | Chemistry | Efficient upconversion for photovoltaic devices | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Dominic Murphy | Science | History & Philosophy of Sci | Wise in Bedlam: Self Knowledge in Society | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Georg Gottwald | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Stochastic aspects of dynamical systems | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Margaret Allman-Farinelli | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | e-SIYP: A cluster randomised controlled trial to decrease soft drink intake in young adults | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Janette Brand-Miller | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | A dietary intervention during pregnancy to reduce child obesity: a randomised controlled trial | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Iain Campbell | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | Interleukin-6 /gp130 signaling and actions in the CNS | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Stuart Cordwell | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | Identification of glycoproteins from campylobacter jejuni | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Joel Mackay | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | The structure and function of alternative splicing factor ZRANB2 | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Guilhem Pages | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | NITR diffusion and exchange spectroscopy for studying chemical transformation in heterogeneous biochemical systems | $20,000.00 |
| Prof Jill Trewhella | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | Structural basis of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by myosin binding protein C | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Scott Croom | Science | Physics | Studying Radio-mode feedback | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Seyed Hashemi-Nezhad | Science | Physics | Research into possible methods for labelling uranium for its traceability | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Christian Karnutsch | Science | Physics | Integrated optofluidic sensor systems | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Laszlo Kiss | Science | Physics | Stellar oscillations as a tool to understanding our galaxy and its stars | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Serdar Kuyucak | Science | Physics | Molecular dynamics simulations of glutanate transporters | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Maryanne Large | Science | Physics | Metallic inclusions in microstructured polymer optical fibres | $15,000.00 |
| Dr David Moss | Science | Physics | Less room at the bottom: trapping electrons and photons for efficient nano-switches | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Robert Boakes | Science | Psychology | Inhibitory flavour learning in the rat | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Katherine Belov | Veterinary Science | Vet Science | Immunogenetics of Devil Facial Tumour Disease | $50,000.00 |