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Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Brain and Mind Centre’s Engagement Collaborative Grants (ECGs) and Emerging Researcher awards (ERs). 4 successful recipients were awarded Engagement Collaborative Grants, and 5 recipients were awarded Emerging Researcher Awards.��

This year’s schemes awarded $50,000��in funding to 4 successful applicants. The��BMC Engagement Collaborative Grant��scheme��is endorsed by the BMC Executive Leadership Committee.��

Engagement Collaborative Grants��Recipients

Associate Professor Melissa Sharpe

a senior researcher in the School of Psychology and the Centre for Psychology and Cognition (CPC), will be collaborating with from the Translational Psychopharmacology team. Their project, “Revealing how drug cues motivate drug seeking: GABA–orexin interactions in the lateral hypothalamus,” aims to uncover the neural mechanisms that drive drug‑seeking behaviour.��

Dr Lipin Loo

a senior researcher in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and the Drug Discovery Initiative (DDI), will collaborate with from the Translational Psychopharmacology team. Their project, “A Spatial Multi‑Omics Platform: Developing Targeted Therapeutics for Chronic Pain,” seeks to advance precision approaches for chronic pain by integrating cutting‑edge spatial multi‑omics technologies.��

Dr Shaikh Nayeem Faisal

a mid‑career researcher (MCR) in the School of Biomedical Engineering, will be collaborating with from the Translational Psychopharmacology team. Their project, “Pre‑clinical study of a millimetre‑scaled wireless all‑ceramic opto‑electronics implantable device for the potential treatment of neuropathic pain using photobiomodulation,” aims to advance next‑generation, device‑based therapies for chronic and neuropathic pain.��

Dr Kevin Law

an early‑career researcher (ECR) in the School of Medical Sciences and the Centre for Psychology and Cognition (CPC), will collaborate with from the Translational Psychopharmacology team. Their project, “Mapping and Characterising the Breathing Centre in the Human Brain,” seeks to deepen understanding of the neural circuits that control respiration.��

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Emerging Researcher Recipients

The Emerging Researcher Award support scheme aims to provide travel funding for EMCR researchers to engage and network with the broader brain and mind science community nationally and globally to facilitate their development as an emerging researcher.

Congratulations to the following applicants:

• ��- from the��Social Functioning Modelling research team.
• ��- from the��Translational Psychopharmacology research team.
• ��- from the��Technology Addition research team.
• ��- from the��Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases research team.
• ��- from the��Youth Mental Health and Technology research team.