Eighteen health, medicine and science researchers from the 爆料王 have been awarded more than $22 million in grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
The NHMRC Ideas Grants scheme supports researchers at all stages in their career undertaking innovative and creative research projects in any area of health and medical research from discovery to implementation.
Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Julie Cairney welcomed the news and congratulated our researchers.聽
鈥淐ongratulations to our 18 outstanding researchers who were successful in this competitive NHMRC funding round,鈥 said Professor Cairney.
鈥淭heir projects span diverse areas of health and medical research, from gene therapies and diabetes to leukaemia and speech therapy.聽
鈥淲e take great pride in our longstanding research excellence in medicine and health and are delighted to see so many of our researchers recognised by the NHMRC. I look forward to seeing the impact of their research on the lives of people everywhere.鈥
Faculty of Medicine and Health
Dr Charles Bailey from the has received $1,065,723.29 for his project 鈥楨nhanced adeno-associated virus vectors for safer gene therapies.鈥
Professor Kirrie Ballard from the Sydney School of Health Sciences has received $909,646 for her project 鈥楢s we speak: Unmasking speech changes earlier in the course of disease.鈥
Professor Wojciech Chrzanowski from the Sydney Pharmacy School has received $885,247.10 for his project 鈥楳itochondrial transplantation as a next-generation therapeutic for COPD.鈥
Dr Kavitha Gowrishankar from the School of Medical Sciences has received $1,338,210.20 for her project 鈥楾ransgenic receptor combinations - novel cellular therapeutics for acute myeloid leukaemia.鈥
Professor Ruta Gupta from the has received $1,033,196 for her project 鈥楾ailoring Adjuvant Therapy for Oral Cancer Through BioPrinting.鈥
Professor Wayne Hawthorne from the and School of Medical Sciences has received $3,912,003.50 for his project 鈥榅enotransplantation a Next Generation Cure for Diabetes using Transgenic Porcine Islets.鈥
Dr Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri from the School of Medical Sciences has received $236,744.45 for his project 鈥楾owards New Reference-free Cancer Genome Analysis for Better Addressing Racial Disparities.鈥
Dr Sohel Julovi from the has received $1,054,097.50 for his project 鈥楬eartfelt disharmony: Investigating a Novel Pathway Driving Cardiorenal Syndrome.鈥
Associate Professor Eddy Kizana from Sydney Medical School has received $1,603,928.40 for his project 鈥楥reation of Next Generation Vectors for Cardiac Gene Therapy: Toward Human Application.鈥
Professor Barbara Mintzes from the School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre has received $1,846,156 for her project 鈥楢 stronger voice for Australian patients and health consumers: toolkit for independence.鈥
Professor Hilda Pickett from the has received $681,113 for her project 鈥楾elomerase proteostasis in human health and disease.鈥
Professor Renae Ryan from the School of Medical Sciences has received $987,264 for her project 鈥楾he twisted link between a dual function transporter and Episodic Ataxia.鈥
Professor Barry Slobedman from the School of Medical Sciences has received $1,564,754.40 for his project 鈥業mproving Outcomes for Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: Pioneering Biomarkers in Human Cytomegalovirus Infection.鈥
Associate Professor Thomas Tu from the has received $1,288,133 for his project 鈥極vercoming viral persistence to cure Hepatitis B.鈥
Associate Professor Anna Waterhouse from the School of Medical Sciences has received $781,778 for her project 鈥楤ioengineering to Eliminate Thrombosis in Heart-Lung Machines.鈥
Dr Justin Wong from the School of Medical Sciences has received $1,029,321 for his project 鈥楲inking altered RNA modification in untranslated regions to cancer pathogenesis.鈥
Faculty of Science
Professor Peter Rutledge from the School of Chemistry has received $977,475 for his project 鈥楬ijacking the mycobacterial protein degradation system for new drugs against tuberculosis.鈥
Dr Carola Venturini from the Sydney School of Veterinary Science has received $816,351 for her project 鈥楳olecular and multi-omics assessment of Klebsiella pneumoniae response to bacteriophages.鈥