$13m NHMRC Ideas Grants funding to advance human health
Gut feelings, malaria nukes and drug resistant bacteria – here's the shortlist of innovative ideas and projects that have been funded across the School in NHMRC’s latest funding round.
At total of 14 research projects have been funded across the School’s three departments with Professor Jennifer-Wilkinson Berka, Head of School, welcoming the announcement.
This recognition from NHMRC is testament to the research expertise and collaboration across our School in what is a very competitive funding environment. Congratulations to all recipients and research teams involved.
Department of Anatomy & Physiology
Dr Jessica Briffa | Size matters: ECM regulation in pregnancy success |
Dr Garron Dodd | Reversing Neurofibrosis: A New Way to Treat Type-2 Diabetes |
Assoc Prof Jenny Gunnersen | An accessible chronic pain therapeutic target in peripheral sensory nerves |
Dr Marlene Hao | A gut feeling about new therapies for glioma treatment: lessons from the enteric nervous system |
Prof Stuart Mazzone | A novel brain circuit inhibiting airway interoceptive processing |
Prof Matthew Watt | New ways to treat fatty liver disease: a focus on lipid metabolism |
Department of Biochemistry & Pharmacology
Assoc Prof Peter Crouch | Improving CNS copper availability to mitigate permanent neurological disability in progressive cases of multiple sclerosis |
Assoc Prof Peter Crouch | Muscle-directed gene therapy as an adjuvant to neuroprotection: Targeting both ends of the dysfunctional nerve-muscle axis to treat motor neurone disease |
Prof Stuart Ralph | Does finite slowing of feeding cause artemisinin resistance in malaria? |
Prof Leann Tilley | Hijacking enzymes that charge tRNAs: a new strategy for development of anti-malarials |
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Dr Brendon Chua | A metabolic enzyme as a target for controlling tumourigenesis |
Dr Abderrahman Hachani | Dissecting the intracellular lifestyle of lethal Staphylococcus aureus |
Dr Sacha Pidot | A genomics-powered ultrahigh-throughput pipeline for rapid antibiotic discovery |
Dr Nichollas Scott | Defining the roles of O-linked glycosylation on Burkholderia virulence |