Monday, 7 September 2015

ALCOA WORLD ALUMINA AUSTRALIA

Dr Christine Soo, UWA Business School, 'Team Disseminative Capacity: An Intra-organisational Knowledge Transfer Mechanism'— $120,353  (2015-17)

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL LOW EMISSIONS COAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Mr Nader Issa, Professor David Lumley, School of Earth and Environment, 'Passive seismic investigations at the SW Hub '—$647,842  (2015-17)

CANCER AUSTRALIA

Miss Bree Foley, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Cure Cancer Australia Foundation - Enhancing NK Cell Mediated Anti Tumour Responses' — $199,494  (2015-16)

CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY EX FISHERIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FRDC

Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 'Investigating Critical Biological Issues for Commercial Greenlip Abalone Sea Ranching in Flinders Bay Western Australia' — $56,000  (2015-16)

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & TRADE AUSTRALIA-INDIA COUNCIL

Professor David White, Associate Professor Susan Gourvenec, Assistant Professor Yinghui Tian, Professor Mark Randolph, Dr Chatterjee Santiram, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 'Seabed engineering for deepwater oil and gas' — $43,190  (2015)

ECR FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT PROGRAM

Dr Yit heng Chooi, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 'A synthetic biology approach for mining the secondary metabolome of phytopathogens.' — $15,023  (2015)

Dr Shannon Simpson, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Thoracic Targets for Prevention and Intervention in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia' — $30,000  (2015)

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTONICS AND OPTICS SPIE

Associate Professor Robert McLaughlin, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'Origami Microscope: An Outreach Program for Secondary Students' — $5,200  (2015)

JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY EX QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TRAINING & EMPLOYMENT

Dr Sarah Prout, James Cook University, School of Earth and Environment, 'Mobility and School Engagement' — $22,500  (2014)

MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Dr Peter Arthur, Miss Jessica Terrill, Emeritus Professor Miranda Grounds, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 'Equipment Grant for the purchase of 12 Metabolic Single Mouse Cages' — $9,154  (2015)

PARKINSONS WESTERN AUSTRALIA INC

Professor Sergio Starkstein, Mr Christopher Lind, Professor Soumya Ghosh, Dr Sarah Egan, Associate Professor Wendy Davis, Doctor Mark Wilson, Ms Simone Brockman, Curtin University of Technology, Fremantle Hospital, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Surgery, Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute WANRI, 'The Neuropsychiatric Effect of PSA DBS' — $200,000  (2015-16)

PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

Dr Aris Siafarikas, Dr Martin de Bock, Mr Matthew Cooper, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, 'The effect of insulin pump therapy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes and poor glycaemic control, a randomized controlled trial '— $18,096  (2015)

Dr Timothy Jones, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, 'Closed Loop Insulin Pump Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes - from Hospital to the Home' — $79,094  (2015)

RELATIONSHIPS AUSTRALIA

Ms Carolyn Johnson, Dr Katherine Britton, Corporate Services, School of Population Health, 'Men's Perspectives of Family Law Mediation Process' — $36,622  (2015)

ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Dr Vance Matthews, Associate Professor Gerald Hoyne, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, UWA Centre for Medical Research, University of Notre Dame Australia, 'To Examine the Functional Role of CDK4 Plays in Regulating Beta Cell Islet Cell Homeostasis and Function'  —  $17,500  (2015)

ST JOHN OF GOD HEALTH CARE

Dr Christina Davies, School of Population Health, 'The Impact of the 2015 St John of God Health Care Creative Arts Pilot Project'  —  $8,000  (2015)

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND EX ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

Miss Kirsten Hancock, Associate Professor Michael Gottfried, Dr Stephen Zubrick, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of California Santa Barbara, 'ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families Over the Life Course - Bridging International Research-policy Partnerships: Development of an Australian/US Research Collaboration on School Transitions, Student Absence and Student Disadvantage' — $5,000  (2015)

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND EX NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAM NESP

Professor David Pannell, Professor Richard Hobbs, Dr Nicola Mitchell, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, School of Animal Biology, School of Plant Biology, 'Threatened Species Recovery Hub' — $1,508,010  (2015-20)

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY EX ARC DISCOVERY PROJECTS

Doctor Meng Ji, Professor Roberto Togneri, Dr Wei Liu, Professor Gert De Sutter, Mr Jorge Diaz Cintas, Doctor Sara Laviosa, A/Professor Adriana Pagano, Professor Sue-Ellen Wright, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Ghent University, Kent State University, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University College London, University of Bari, University of Sydney, 'A Cross National and Cross Cultural Study of Global Translation Industry' — $30,540  (2015-17)

UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA EX NHMRC PROJECT GRANTS

Winthrop Professor Gerald Watts, Austin Health, Monash University, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, University of Adelaide, University of Queensland, University of Tasmania, 'Coronary Artery Calcium Score - Use to Guide Management of Hereditary Coronary Artery Disease CAUGHT-CAD' — $483,812  (2015-19)

UWA RESEARCH COLLABORATION AWARDS

Professor Mark Beeson, Professor Thomas Diez, School of Social Sciences, Universitat Tubingen, 'Regions in crisis: ASEAN and the EU' — $13,500  (2016)

Dr Renee Firman, Dr Kerstin Musolf, School of Animal Biology, The City University of New York, 'Music to her ears: attractive components of ultra-sonic vocalizations in male house mice' — $20,000  (2016)

Professor Susan Prescott, Professor Dianne Campbell,  Carel Thijs, Dr John Penders, Associate Professor Anita Kozyrskyj, Professor Phillip Calder, Doctor Michael Levin, Professor Cecile Svanes, Professor Gary Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Alberta, University of Bergen, University of Cape Town, University of Maastricht, University of Southampton, University of Sydney, 'WUN in-FLAME network collaboration and 2016 workshop'— $11,000  (2016)

Dr Claudia Lagos Urbina, Professor Nelson Padilla, Professor Darren Croton, Mr Sergio Contreras, Mr Adam Stevens, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Swinburne University of Technology, 'The evolution of the angular momentum vector in galaxies and dark matter halos' — $17,000  (2016)

Dr Kenji Bekki, Ms Bi-Qing For, Professor Wyn Evans, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Cambridge, 'Co-evolution of ultra-faint dwarfs and the Magellanic Clouds'—$14,500  (2016)

Associate Professor Rae-Chi Huang, Dr Adrienne Gordon, Associate Professor Michael Skilton, Professor Lucilla Poston, Professor Keith Godfrey, Dr Mary Barker, Dr Kyra Sim, Mrs Nina D'Vaz, Kings College London, Telethon Kids Institute, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of Southampton, University of Sydney, 'Network for Preconception and Early Pregnancy Randomised Controlled Trials'— $19,992  (2016)

Dr Lucinda Black, Professor Heather Greenfield, Professor David Fraser, Dr Jayashree Arcot, Telethon Kids Institute, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, 'Quantifying vitamin D in Australian foods'— $14,755  (2016)

Professor Johannes Lambers, Associate Professor Etienne Laliberte, Dr Benjamin Turner, School of Plant Biology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, University of Montreal, 'Poor dirt, rich vegetation; novel insights into plant biodiversity by studying south-western Australia's ancient, nutrient-impoverished soils'— $17,000  (2016)

Mr Gino Putrino, Professor Giovanni Dietler, Mrs Anna Podolska, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne - EPFL (Switzerland), School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'Determination of bacterial resistance to antibiotics using MEMS sensors'— $7,000  (2016)

Dr Maxim Goryachev, Professor John Clarke, Associate Professor Holger Mueller, School of Physics, University of California Berkeley, 'Acoustic Michelson Morely Experiment, High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection and tests of Quantum gravity utilizing precision Measurement of Quartz Resonators'— $13,000  (2016)

Dr Oiwei Wong, Professor Kevin Schawinski, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 'The feeding habits of supermassive black holes and the impact on galaxy evolution'— $14,400  (2016)

Associate Professor Li Ju, Associate Professor Chunnong Zhao, Professor Ling-An Wu, Associate Professor Dong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Physics, Zhejiang University, 'Collaboration with China on techniques for improving sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors'— $15,000  (2016)

Professor Hong Yang, Professor Yinong Liu, Professor Dongfeng Xue, Academician Hongjie Zhang, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry CIAC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, 'Establishing Research Capability on Rare-Earth Elements Enabled Energy Storage Materials'— $16,000  (2016)

Dr Haibo Jiang, Professor Stephen Young, Professor Chris Grovenor, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (00012), University of California Los Angeles, University of Oxford, 'Direct Visualization of Lipid Transport by the NanoSIMS'— $19,664  (2016)

Dr Minh Tieu Huynh, Associate Professor Vernesa Smolcic, Mr Andrew Butler, Dr Jacinta Delhaize, Mr Nikola Baran, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, School of Physics, University of Zagreb, 'Measuring Black Hole Feedback with Deep and Wide Radio Observations'— $14,400  (2016)

Winthrop Professor Karol Miller, Professor Adam Wittek, Professor Ron Kikinis, Harvard Medical School, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, 'Computational Mechanics for Neurosurgical Navigation: Biomechanics-Based Neuroimage Registration During Tumour Removal'— $14,345  (2016)

Associate Professor Kevin Pfleger, Dr Laura Kilpatrick, Dr Carl White, Professor Stephen Hill, UWA Centre for Medical Research, University of Nottingham, 'Receptor tyrosine kinase pharmacology and cutting edge fluorescence technologies'— $17,659  (2016)

Dr Danail Obreschkow, Dr Mohamed Farhat, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne - EPFL (Switzerland), International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, 'Probing Cavitation Bubbles in Microgravity'— $19,300  (2016)

Dr Danail Obreschkow, Doctor Camille Bonvin, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Geneva, 'Decoding the Large-Scale Signature of the Universe'— $20,000  (2016)

Dr Miriam Munoz-Rojas, Doctor Albert Sole-Benet, Doctor Cecilio Oyonarte, School of Plant Biology, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, University of Almeria, 'Connecting above and belowground processes to restore functionality of arid lands: a comparison between Northern and Southern hemisphere ecosystems'— $19,600  (2016)

Dr Ozren Bogdanovich, Professor Ryan Lister, Professor Manuel Serrano, Professor Jose Gomez-Skarmeta, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, Centro Adaluz de Biologia del Desarrollo (CABD), Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre CNIO, Spanish National Research Council CSIC, 'Reprogramming to totipotency - Tracing the origins of the unique developmental plasticity of in vivo derived pluripotent stem cells'— $18,500  (2016)

Dr Nadine Kloth, Professor Gyula Kovacs, School of Psychology, University of Jena, 'Probabilistic adaptation in the brain.  An fMRI project.'— $15,210  (2016)

Mr Benjamin Grafton, Professor Emily Holmes, School of Psychology, University of Cambridge, 'The attentional basis of resilience'— $16,528  (2016)

Dr Prajwal Kafle, Dr Aaron Robotham, Dr Sanjib Sharma, Dr Mark Wilkinson, Dr Peder Norberg, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, University of Durham, University of Leicester, University of Sydney, 'In the Local Universe, How Big a Problem is Too-Big-To-Fail?'— $19,645  (2016)

Professor Colin MacLeod, Professor Reinout Wiers, School of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 'Cognitive bias modification approaches to remediating addiction'— $18,400  (2016)

Dr Barry Doyle, Mr Grand Joldes, Professor Peter Hoskins, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 'Multi-Modality Imaging and Patient-Specific Modelling'— $19,200  (2016)

Dr Cyril Donnelly, Professor Andrew Cresswell, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, University of Queensland, 'Trunk Mechanics and Injury Risk in Sidestepping and Cricket Bowling'— $13,660  (2016)

Miss Kathryn Ramsey, Dr Stephen Stick, Professor Richard Boucher, Professor Marianne Muhlebach, Associate Professor Charles Esther, Dr Andre Schultz, Associate Professor Robert Tarran, Associate Professor Scott Donaldson, Telethon Kids Institute, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 'Mechanisms of Early Cystic Fibrosis in Lung Disease'— $17,000  (2016)

Dr Amir Karton, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, 'Powerful quantum-chemical methods to tackle the chemical challenges of teh 21st century'— $17,000  (2016)

Dr Wen Lei, Professor Lorenzo Faraone, Professor/Dr Wei Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'Physical property study of novel HgCdSe infrared materials'— $17,900  (2016)

Dr Natasha Pauli, Dr Bryan Boruff, Ms Julia Horsley, Dr Andreas Neef, Dr Kellie McNeill, School of Earth and Environment, University of Auckland, 'Risk, resilience and recovery: A participatory approach to integrating local and scientific knowledge for disaster preparedness of communities in flood-prone catchments in Fiji'— $16,000  (2016)

Dr Thomas Wernberg, Professor Craig Johnson, Professor Peter Steinberg, Dr Adriana Verges, Professor Sean Connell, Dr Nick Shears, Professor John Bolton, School of Plant Biology, University of Adelaide, University of Auckland, University of Cape Town, University of New South Wales, University of Tasmania, 'Southern Hemisphere Ecklonia Ecosystems Network (SHEEN)'— $18,400  (2016)

Mr Dan Taranu, Professor John Dubinski, Professor Fabio Governato, Dr Danail Obreschkow, Professor Thomas Quinn, Professor James Wadsley, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, McMaster University, University of Toronto, University of Washington, 'How do Spiral Galaxies Evolve Through Cosmic Time?'— $20,000  (2016)

Dr Foivos Diakogiannis, Dr Prajwal Kafle, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, 'Identifying (accurate) the dark matter mass profile of dwarf spheroidal galaxies'— $13,980  (2016)

Dr Einar Fridjonsson, Professor/Dr Johannes Vrouwenvelder, Delft University of Technology, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology , School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, 'Development of a low magnetic field NMR tool for early fouling detection in reverse osmosis membranes'— $16,374  (2016)

Mrs Shiaohuey Chow, Dr Andrea Diambra, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Bristol, 'Plate Anchors for Offshore Renewable Energy Application: Predicting Cyclic Behaviour in Sand'— $11,987  (2016)

Professor Petra Tschakert, Professor David Pannell, Professor Jon Barnett, Professor Alistair Woodward, Associate Professor Nancy Tuana, Professor Mark New, Dr Abu Mumuni, Professor Margaret Alston, Dr Susanna Sallu, Ms Marit Kragt, Assistant Professor Ram Pandit, Monash University, Pennsylvania State University, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, School of Earth and Environment, University of Auckland, University of Cape Town, University of Ghana, University of Leeds, University of Melbourne, 'Non-market Loss and Damage Evaluation under Climate Change'— $17,000  (2016)

Dr Clelia Gasparini, Dr Cristina Tuni, School of Animal Biology, University of Munich, 'Environmental-induced variation in sperm phenotype in the field cricket'— $18,190  (2016)

Associate Professor Jeffrey Shragge, Dr Kasper Van Wijk, Dr Ludmila Adam, School of Earth and Environment, University of Auckland, 'High-resolution Investigation of Geologic Core Samples using 3D Imaging of Laser Ultrasound Data'— $18,000  (2016)

Dr David Mickler, Dr Kelly Gerard, Prof Matthew Flinders, Dr Kathryn Sturman, School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland, University of Sheffield, 'Stakeholder Engagement and Legitimacy in Regional Organisations'— $10,850  (2016)

Dr Hilary Wallace, Professor Petra Tschakert, Professor Anu Rammohan, Doctor Saidur Mashreky, Doctor Helen Elsey, Centre for Injury Prevention and Research Bangladesh CIPRB, School of Earth and Environment, School of Surgery, UWA Business School, University of Leeds, 'Community childcare for improving early childhood safety and healthy in urban slums in Dhaka Metropolitan City, Bangladesh'— $15,000  (2016)

Dr Cyril Grueter, Professor Beth Kaplin, Mr Methode Majyambere, Antioch University, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, University of Rwanda, 'Initiating Long-term Research on the Behavioral Ecology of a Chimpanzee Population In Rwanda'— $5,000  (2016)

Dr Boris Baer, Professor Jacobus Boomsma, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, Centre for Integrative Bee Research, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, University of Copenhagen, 'Evolutionary Proteomics: Molecules of love and warfare' — $17,500  (2016)

Associate Professor Robert McLaughlin, Dr Jonathan Sorger, Intuitive Surgical, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'Robotic-assisted surgery using the Microscope-in-a-needle'— $17,000  (2016)

Associate Professor Leon Adams, Professor Mark Morrison, Dr Phillip Melton, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Queensland, 'Microbiome and Liver Injury in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease'— $16,500  (2016)

Professor David Preen, Professor Robert Pattinson, Ms Tina Lavin, Doctor Jennifer Makin, School of Population Health, University of Pretoria, 'Increasing neonatal survival in low-resource settings: evidence from South Africa's Perinatal Problem Identification Program'— $17,000  (2016)

Ms Lee Nedkoff, Mr Derrick Lopez, Professor Michael Goldacre, Doctor Lucy Wright, School of Population Health, University of Oxford, 'Comparative analyses of coronary heart disease epidemiology in Australia and England'— $11,480  (2016)

WA DEPARTMENT OF FIRE & EMERGENCY SERVICES

Mr Patrick Dunlop, Mrs Karina Jorritsma, School of Psychology, 'The Assessment of Cognitive Ability and Personality in Firefighter Selection: Investigating Validity and Threats to Validity'— $71,508  (2015)

WA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Dr Claire Johnson, Professor Christobel Saunders, Ms Angela Ives, Mrs Violet Platt, Ms Sandy McKiernan, Cancer Council of WA, School of Surgery, WA Cancer & Palliative Care Network, WA Department of Health, 'An Evaluation of Treatment Pathways and Out-of-pocket Expenses for People Diagnosed with Cancer in the Peel/Rockingham Area'— $19,940  (2015)

WA ENERGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE WAERA EX CHEVRON

Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 'Gorgon Project: Coastal Hydrodynamic and Sediment Modelling'— $189,547  (2015-16)

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN ENERGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE WAERA EX WOODSIDE R2D3

Mr Wenhua Zhao, Mr Hugh Wolgamot, Ms Nicole Jones, Mr Scott Draper, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 'Investigating the RiverLab Concept'— $19,737  (2015)

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