$5.7m ARC funding success for SBS researchers
Congratulations to our researchers awarded Discovery Project grants in the recent funding round.
A total of 10 Discovery Projects have been funded across the School of Biomedical Sciences as part of the Australian Research Council's (ARC) announcement last week.
With a focus on investing in research to drive economic recovery, the Morrison Government is providing $255 million in university research as part of the plan to help drive Australia’s economic recovery from COVID-19. Funding for a total of 591 research projects has been awarded to Australian researchers in the ARC’s Discovery Projects 2021, Round 1.
The Discovery Projects scheme aims expand the knowledge base and research capacity in Australia and support research that will provide economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia.
Our ARC Discovery Projects recipients in the School are:
| Prof Ben Hogan | Anatomy & Neuroscience | Neurovascular pericytes in development, cell-cell communication and brain regeneration |
| Prof Stuart Mazzone | Anatomy & Neuroscience | Investigating the somatosensory system of the vagus nerve and its role in regulating organ function |
| Prof Paul Gooley | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | How do viral proteins do so much? |
| Prof Sammy Bedoui | Microbiology & Immunology | Why do cells have so many ways to die? |
| Dr Alexandra Corbett | Microbiology & Immunology | Understanding MAIT cell life and death |
| Prof Dale Godfrey | Microbiology & Immunology | Specificity and function of CD1c-lipid-restricted T cells |
| Prof Axel Kallies | Microbiology & Immunology | Understanding the development of effector regulatory T cells |
| Dr Nichollas Scott | Microbiology and Immunology | Characterising O-linked glycosylation across the Burkholderia genus |
| Prof Andrew Allen | Physiology | Novel chemogenetic approach |
| Prof Matthew Watt | Physiology | Deciphering new regulators of lipid metabolism: a focus on lipid droplets |
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