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The Faculty is pleased to offer our congratulations to NHMRC grants recipients: Winthrop Professor David Smith , Research Associate Professor Bruce Gardiner and Professor Karol Miller .

The grants will support the following projects:

1) AusCAN risk assessment for sitting acquired pressure ulcers - $1,646,750

STACEY, Prof Michael; BADER, Prof Daniel; SWAINE, Ms Jillian; MIDDLETON, A/Pr James; OLVER, Dr James; HAYES, Prof Keith; GARBER, Prof Susan; HENDRIE, Dr Delia; MILLER, Prof Karol

2) Hypoxia is the common pathway to renal failure - $478,125

EVANS, A/Pr Roger, BERTRAM, Prof John, SCHLAICH, A/Pr Markus, GARDINER, A/Pr Bruce, SMITH, Prof  David, PHILLIPS, Prof Jaqueline

Even though there are only two successful NHMRC grants, the total funding for them is about $2.1M , which represents about 35% of the total ARC Discovery Project and ARC Linkage grant income from 15 grants ($5,8M).

In other words, it is a significant source of funding (the combine NHMRC schemes have about twice as much money in them as the ARC schemes combined). It is also possible in the NHMRC grants for a CI to ask for their own salary to be funded, which one cannot do in the ARC schemes.

For further information about the NHMRC grants please contact RDO Debbie Thackray on 6488 4765.

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Magdalena Matuszczyk / [email protected] / 6488 4277