Sydney Bridging Support Grants 2010
| CI Last Name | Faculty | School | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professor John Crawford | Agriculture Food and Natural Resources | The Virtual Rhizosphere | $50,000 | |
| Professor Mark Adams | Agriculture Food and Natural Resources | Will there be more carbon in forests and less water in rivers? trade-offs under climate change | $50,000 | |
| Dr Xiangyu Wang | Architecture | Structural collapse: transforming rescue through wearable augmented-reality systems | $10,000 | |
| Dr Ian Young | Arts | Languages and Culture | The Variant Texts of the Bible Found Among the Dead Sea Scrolls: Implications for Sociology, Linguistics and Canon | $40,000 |
| Dr David Bray | Arts | Social and Political Sciences | Reconstructing community in Shanghai: space, power and identity in the new metropolis | $40,000 |
| Professor Michael Humphrey | Arts | Social and Political Sciences | An anthropology of justice: globalizing conflict, victims, rights and reconciliation | $40,000 |
| Professor Huw Price | Arts | SOPHI | Learning From Disagreement: Pragmatism and the New Relativism | $40,000 |
| Professor Shane White | Arts | SOPHI | Year of the Riot: Harlem, 1935 | $40,000 |
| Professor Neil Hunter | Dentistry | The significance of binding of blood group antigens by the lysine gingipain of Porphyromanos gingivalis | $50,000 | |
| A/Professor Hala Zreiqat | Engineering & IT | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | Biphasic engineered scaffolds for repair of orthopaedic defects | $50,000 |
| Dr Nicholas Williamson | Engineering & IT | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | Mixing and purging of stratified pools in Australia's inland rivers | $50,000 |
| Dr Shiwei Zhou | Engineering & IT | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | Numerical design of metamaterials with evolutional structural optimization and level set method | $10,000 |
| Professor Liyong Tong | Engineering & IT | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | Shape adaptive flexible structures integrated with advanced ferroelectric based actuators | $50,000 |
| Dr Xiaoke Yi | Engineering & IT | Electrical Engineering | New photonic approaches for high frequency microwave signal processing | $50,000 |
| Dr Joanne Callen | Health Sciences | Making healthcare safer: The development of a technology-enabled work process model for clinicians’ management of diagnostic tests | $10,000 | |
| Professor Patrick Parkinson | Law | The effectiveness of independent children's lawyers in family law disputes | $40,000 | |
| A/Professor Qihan Dong | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Efficacy and Mechanism of cPLA2 inhibitor in treating hormone refractory prostate cancer | $50,000 |
| Dr James Lyons | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Restoring epithelial differentiation to squamous cell carcinomas | $50,000 |
| Dr Kenneth Rodgers | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Formation and functional implications of levodopa-containing proteins in Parkinson's disease | $50,000 |
| Dr Nathaniel Marshall | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Adjunct Modafinil for neurobehavioural dysfunction in obese sleep apnea patients who cannot use standard treatments | $50,000 |
| Dr Nicholas West | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Genes to Drugs for the control of Tuberculosis | $50,000 |
| Professor David Burke | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Activity-dependant modulation and plasticity of spinal reflex function | $50,000 |
| Professor John Rasko | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Establishing a metabolic link with obsessive-compulsive disorder | $50,000 |
| A/Professor Peter Bye | Medicine |
Central Clinical School |
Novel interventions for the diverse population of Australians with Bronchiectasis | $50,000 |
| A/Professor Karen Waters | Medicine | Childrens Hospital Clinical School | Does Adenotonsillectomy improve neurocognition in pre-school children with obstructive sleep apnea? | $50,000 |
| Professor John Christodoulou | Medicine | Childrens Hospital Clinical School | Identification of Novel MeCP2 Targets: Towards the Discovery of Innovative Approaches to the Treatment of Rett Syndrome | $50,000 |
| Professor Kathryn North | Medicine | Childrens Hospital Clinical School | Early identification of cognitive deficits in children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 | $50,000 |
| Dr Ulla Simanainen | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Steriod Activation and Androgen signaling as targets in prostate cancer | $50,000 |
| Dr Daniel Hermens | Medicine | Medical Sciences | Neurocognitive profiling of methamphetamine psychosis | $10,000 |
| Dr Hugh Morgan | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Epigenetic consequences of perturbing early embryo development | $50,000 |
| Dr Meilang Xue | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Activated protein C suppresses the abnormal immune response in rheumatoid arthritis | $50,000 |
| Dr Peregrine Osborne | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Molecular pharmacology of a novel neurotrophic factor for treating injured peripheral sensory nerves | $50,000 |
| Professor Jonathan Morris | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Immediate delivery vs extectant care in women with preterm labour rupture of the membranes close to term | $50,000 |
| Professor Peter Cistulli | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | A Novel Method for Craniofacial Phenotyping in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea | $50,000 |
| Dr Michael Morris | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Gene circuitry and signalling mechanisms driving neurogenesis of embryonic cells | $50,000 |
| Dr Silke Rinkwitz | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Cis-regulatory analysis of genes in genomic loci with implication in hypothalmic obesity | $50,000 |
| Dr Valery Combes | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Microparticles as novel mediators of macrophage and endothelial responses | $50,000 |
| Professor Bogdan Dreher | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Neural basis of sensitivity to polarity of visual contrast in primary and 'higher-order' visual cortices | $50,000 |
| Professor Nicholas King | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Modelling and control of macrophage migration to the brain in flavivirus encephalitis | $50,000 |
| Professor Georges Grau | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Membrane-cytoskeleton interactions in endothelial vasiculation during inflammation | $50,000 |
| Dr Barry Slobedman | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Human cytomegalovirus encoded immunomodulation during latent phase of infection | $50,000 |
| Dr Graham Jones | Medicine | Western Clinical School | The role of PHF11 in CD4+ effector and regulatory T-cells in human allergic disease | $50,000 |
| Dr Mark McLean | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Can Gestational Diabetes be improved by Vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy? | $50,000 |
| Professor Paul Mitchell | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Blue Mountains Eye Study: Development of a new population cross-section | $50,000 |
| Dr Daniela Traini | Pharmacy | An enclosed atomic-force microscope for analysing high-pressure non-aqueous-suspension pMDIs | $50,000 | |
| Dr Maria Sukkar | Pharmacy | Mechanisms of airway smooth muscle inflammation and remodelling via RAGE, TLR2 and TLR4 in chronic airways disease | $50,000 | |
| Dr Paul Young | Pharmacy | Micro-particle agglomerate formation, fluidisation, break-up and dispersion in aerosol systems | $50,000 | |
| Professor Kim Chan | Pharmacy | Mechanistic studies of powder de-agglomeration in inhaler devices | $50,000 | |
| Professor Michael Murray | Pharmacy | Regulatory interplay of bZIP factors in the regulation of the cytoprotective human CYP2J2 gene | $50,000 | |
| A/Professor Frank Seebacher | Science | Biological Sciences | Universal metabolic control systems: energy sensing and thermoregulation | $50,000 |
| Dr Ashley Ward | Science | Biological Sciences | The role of individual behaviour in complex biological systems | $50,000 |
| Dr Deanna D'Alessandro | Science | Chemistry | Redox- and Photo-Active Metal-Organic Frameworks: Physical Properties and Application in Gas Separations | $10,000 |
| Dr Tim Schmidt | Science | Chemistry | Ultrafast laser spectroscopy of third generation photovoltaic components | $50,000 |
| Dr Catherine Mills | Science | History & Philosophy of Science | Ultrasound, Embodiment and Abortion: A Feminist Analysis of Foetal Imaging and the Ethics of the Selective Termination of Pregnancy | $40,000 |
| Dr Rosemary Thompson | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Modelling of microbubble control mechanisms for sonoporation | $50,000 |
| A/Professor Jacqui Matthews | Science | Molecular & Microbial Biosciences | LMO4-containing protein complexes in development | $50,000 |
| Dr David Moss | Science | Physics | A green light for terabit all-optical signal measurement | $50,000 |
| Professor Marcela Bilek | Science | Physics | New generation pulsed magnetron sputtering: enhancing ionisation and deposition rate | $50,000 |
| Dr Alex Holcombe | Science | Psychology | Position perception, object motion, attention and action | $50,000 |
| Dr Bruce Burns | Science | Psychology | People's sensitivity to statistical regularities in the environment: Benford's law | $50,000 |
| Dr Irina Harris | Science | Psychology | Ensemble coding of objects and faces | $50,000 |
| Dr Lisa Zadro | Science | Psychology | Ostracism and Intergroup relations: Implication for Persistence and Amelioration of Interethnic Aggression | $50,000 |
| Professor Sally Andrews | Science | Psychology | Lexical expertise and reading skill: Why spelling benefits reading | $50,000 |
| Dr Kathy Belov | Veterinary Sciences | Tracking the evolutionary trajectory of a contagious cancer: characterization of tumour variants of devil facial tumour disease | $50,000 |