News Archive

ARC FUTURE FELLOWSHIPS

Dr Barbara Catinella, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, 'Using Australia's Next-generation Radio Telescopes to Unveil the Gas Cycle in Galaxies' —  (2015-16)

AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF ANAESTHETISTS

Clinical Professor David Hillman, Professor Peter Eastwood, Dr Jennifer Walsh, Dr Bradley Lawther, Dr Ase Danielson, Professor Lars Eriksson, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, 'Comparison of Upper Airway Properties During Dexmedetomidine and Propofol Sedation' —  $69,335  (2016)

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL FABRICATION FACILITY LIMITED EX NCRIS ANFFL WA NODE

Dr Mariusz Martyniuk, Professor Lorenzo Faraone, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'NCRIS 2015 ANFFL WA Node' — $779,432  (2015-16)

AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION (ANSTO)

Dr Ingrid Ward, School of Social Sciences, 'Bragg Institute NBIP - 3D visualisation of an embedded chert artefact from Barrow Island' — $14,200  (2016)

BHP BILLITON IRON ORE PTY LTD

Professor Josephine McDonald, School of Social Sciences, 'Site Inspection and Study of Wanmanna Engraving Site' — $14,850  (2015)

CANCER COUNCIL OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Miss Yi Huang, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'To develop simple serum models that can accurately predict the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in chronic liver disease.' —  (2016-18)

CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION US

Dr Stephen Stick, Professor Stephen Wilton, Professor Sue Fletcher, Dr Anthony Kicic, Murdoch University, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Oligonucleotide Therapy Discovery Program' — $412,436  (2015-16)

ECR FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT PROGRAM

Mr Hongwei An, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 'Effect of Natural Seabeds on Hydrodynamics around a Circular Cylinder' — $29,920  (2015)

EQUITY TRUSTEES LIMITED HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH ENDOWMENT

Associate Professor Roberta Bencini, School of Animal Biology, 'The demographics of the Rottnest Island quokka (Setonix brachyurus)' — $3,000  (2015)

Ms Jacqueline Loo Luy de Gruber, School of Animal Biology, 'Assessing levels of admixture in mananaged and unmamanaged populations: a required step to save the critically endangered hairy marron' — $5,000  (2016)

FUGRO AG

Associate Professor Christophe Gaudin, Dr Conleth O'Loughlin, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, 'Browse FLNG development – Pipe soil interaction centrifuge testing' — $196,145  (2015)

HEARTLANDS WA EX WHEATBELT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

Professor Fiona Haslam-McKenzie, Professor Matthew Tonts, Professor Carolyn Oldham, Dr Antony Hughes-D'Aeth, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, School of Earth and Environment, School of Humanities, 'Interdisciplinary Wheatbelt Service Learning Unit' — $32,000  (2015)

IBERDROLA RENOVABLES OFFSHORE DEUTSCHLAND

Professor Barry Lehane, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 'Midi ICP Testing - Collaborative Research Project with Imperial College London'— $30,000  ()

NHMRC CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIPS

Dr Thomas Snelling, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Comparative effectiveness research in childhood infections to improve decision-making in health policy and clinical practice' —  (2016-19)

Dr Christopher Blyth, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, 'Evaluation and optimisation of paediatric vaccination programs in Australia and the region' —  (2016-19)

NHMRC CENTRES OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE

Clinical Professor Carol Bower, Professor Elizabeth Elliott, Mr James Fitzpatrick, Dr Rochelle Watkins, Ms Heather D'Antoine, Ms June Oscar, Doctor Roslyn Giglia, Dr Stephen Zubrick, Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Curtin University of Technology, Graduate School of Education, Marninwarntikura Women's Resource Centre, Menzies School of Health Research, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of Sydney, 'Reducing the Effects of Antenatal Alcohol on Child Health (REAACH)' — $2,497,398  (2016-20)

Professor Bruce Robinson, Dr Jenette Creaney, Adjunct Professor Richard Lake, Professor Anna Nowak, Professor Arthur Musk, Dr Willem Lesterhuis, Professor Yun Lee, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, 'National Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases' — $2,495,165  (2016-20)

NHMRC DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

Professor Fiona Wood, Dr Wolfgang Jarolimek, Dr Mark Fear, Dr Killugudi Swaminatha Iyer, Pharmaxis Ltd, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Surgery, 'Targeting collagen cross-linking to improve scar appearance' — $873,305  (2016-18)

Professor Peter Leedman, Dr Christopher Wraight, UWA Centre for Medical Research, miReven Pty Ltd, 'Development of a novel microRNA mimic for cancer treatment' — $534,180  (2016-17)

NHMRC EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIPS

Miss Seyhan Yazar, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 'Stem Cell Bioinformatics for Eye Research: Mapping an integrative network model of glaucoma' —  (2016-19)

Dr Claire Waddington, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Identifying pragmatic strategies to prevent and treat enteric infection in Indigenous infants' —  (2016-19)

NHMRC PRACTITIONER FELLOWSHIPS

Professor Bruce Robinson, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'Practitioner Fellowship - Robinson' —  (2016-20)

NHMRC PROJECT GRANTS

Professor Susan Prescott, Winthrop Professor Jeffrey Keelan, Professor Karen Simmer, Dr Debra Palmer, Associate Professor Richard Allcock, Professor Timo Lassmann, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Telethon Kids Institute, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Dietary modulation of maternal gut flora with oligosaccharides in pregnancy as a novel allergy prevention strategy' — $1,681,513  (2016-20)

Winthrop Professor Vera Morgan, Professor John McGrath, Professor Cherrie Galletly, Professor Carol Harvey, Professor David Castle, Dr Martin Cohen, Professor Assen Jablensky, Professor Vaughan Carr, Dr Amanda Neil, Assistant Professor Anna Waterreus, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Newcastle, University of Queensland, University of Tasmania, 'An empirical framework for assessing mortality and morbidity in people with psychotic illness: 7-year follow-up and 10-year retrospective analysis of 2075 Survey of High Impact Psychosis (SHIP) participants using linked mortality and health registers' — $751,876  (2016-20)

Dr Bradley Farrant, Dr Michael Wright, Dr Stephen Zubrick, Associate Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, Dr Carrington Shepherd, Mr Glenn Pearson, Australian Catholic University, Curtin University of Technology, Telethon Kids Institute, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Closing the gap in Indigenous early childhood development: Community driven evidence, translation, policy, and practice - grow children up strong' — $1,656,624  (2016-20)

Associate Professor Livia Hool, Professor Christopher Semsarian, Dr Killugudi Swaminatha Iyer, Centenary Institute, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Sydney, 'A novel therapy for the prevention and treatment of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy' — $835,972  (2016-19)

Professor Peter Leedman, Professor Suzanne Fuqua, Professor Paul Yen, Baylor College of Medicine, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School,Singapore, UWA Centre for Medical Research, 'Nuclear receptors and triple negative breast cancer' — $681,979  (2016-18)

Professor Peter Eastwood, Associate Professor Ajmal Mian,  Nigel McArdle, Professor David Hillman, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, 'Predicting Obstructive Sleep Apnoea using 3D Craniofacial Photography'—$424,715  (2016-18)

Professor Trevor Mori, Emeritus Professor Lawrence Beilin, Professor Eric Moses, Winthrop Professor Gerald Watts, Associate Professor Leon Adams, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'Genetic And Early Life Predictors Of Ectopic Fat And Their Association With Cardiometabolic Health And Disease' — $1,706,135  (2016-20)

Associate Professor Wallace Langdon, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 'Inhibiting Chemotherapy-induced Myelosuppression' — $568,915  (2016-18)

Dr Willem Lesterhuis, Adjunct Professor Richard Lake, Dr Anthony Bosco, Associate Professor Joel Dudley, Professor Anna Nowak, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Resetting the tipping point: Converting immune checkpoint non-responders into responders' — $455,136  (2016-18)

Professor Karen Simmer, Dr Tobias Strunk, Professor William Tarnow-Mordi, Dr Sanjay Patole, Associate Professor Peter Anderson, Dr Wendy Hague, Associate Professor Terrie Inder, Dr Dorota Doherty, Professor Neil Marlow, Professor Keith Barrington, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University College London, University of Montreal, University of Sydney, Washington University (St Louis), 'Can Pentoxifylline improve long-term outcomes in preterm infants with late-onset sepsis or necrotizing enterocolitis – a randomized, controlled trial' — $2,901,131  (2016-20)

Professor Bruce Robinson, Dr Jenette Creaney, Adjunct Professor Richard Lake, Dr Willem Lesterhuis, Dr Mark Watson, Murdoch University, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'Reactivities of CD8 T cells to mutated neo-antigens in lung malignancies' — $661,979  (2016-18)

Mr James Fitzpatrick, Dr Rosalyn Walker, Professor Rhonda Marriott, Mr Glenn Pearson, Professor Sven Silburn, Professor Mike Daube, Curtin University of Technology, Menzies School of Health Research, Murdoch University, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Making Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders History in the Pilbara: An evidence-based prevention intervention' — $1,703,824  (2016-20)

Professor Eric Moses, Associate Professor Peter Meikle, Professor John Blangero, Dr Phillip Melton, Professor Joseph Hung, Adjunct Professor John Beilby, Dr Gemma Cadby, Associate Professor Marie-Pierre Dube, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, Montreal Heart Institute, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, 'The Busselton Family Heart Study' — $2,210,036  (2016-20)

Winthrop Professor Jiake Xu, Associate Professor Nathan Pavlos, Dr Jennifer Tickner, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Surgery, 'Furin: Carving-up vital substrates for bone remodelling and homeostasis' — $815,972  (2016-19)

Dr Timothy Jones, Dr Elizabeth Davis, Doctor Martin de Bock, Associate Professor David O'Neal, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of Melbourne, 'Free-Living Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: A long-term multi-centre randomized controlled trial' — $1,041,987  (2016-18)

Dr Jennepher Downs, Dr Helen Leonard, Professor Julian Trollor, Professor Elizabeth Geelhoed, Professor Lakshmi Nagarajan, Dr Andrew Wilson, Professor David Forbes, Dr Madhur Ravikumara, Mr Peter Jacoby, Dr Kingsley Wong, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, School of Population Health, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of New South Wales, 'Does gastrostomy improve the lives of children with severe disability and their families?' — $645,101  (2016-19)

Dr Jennepher Downs, Dr Helen Leonard, Professor Katrina Williams, Dr Elise Davis, Professor Dinah Reddihough, Mr Andrew Whitehouse, Mr Peter Jacoby, Royal Childrens Hospital Melbourne, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, University of Melbourne, 'Characterising quality of life and its determinants for children with intellectual disability and their families' — $520,874  (2016-18)

NHMRC-ARC DEMENTIA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIPS

Ms Kathryn Smith, School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care, UWA Centre for Medical Research, 'Development and validation of the first culturally based quality of life tool for Aboriginal Australians living with dementia or cognitive impairment' —  (2016-19)

Dr Sarah Rea, UWA Centre for Medical Research, 'How do mutations in autophagy receptors cause FTD and ALS?' —  (2016-19)

Mr Sam Buckberry, ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology, 'The role of the neuronal epigenome in natural brain ageing and the progression of Alzheimer’s disease' —  (2016-19)

OPHTHALMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA

Dr Samuel McLenachan, Dr Fred Chen, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 'Developing personalized disease modelling for testing novel treatment in inherited retinal disease due to RP1 mutation' — $50,000  (2016)

RIO TINTO LIMITED

Professor Fiona Haslam-McKenzie, School of Earth and Environment, 'The social and economic perception and impact of Rio Tinto's fly-in/fly-out workforce on the Broome community' — $54,868  (2015)

ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Dr Phillip Melton, Dr Norberto Baldi, Mr Alexander Rea, Centre for Genetic Origins of Health and Disease, University of Costa Rica, 'Microbiome Diversity, Nutritional Status and Gut Dysbiosis in Amerindians' — $17,500  (2015)

SACRED HEART MISSION

Professor Paul Flatau, Dr Monica Theilking, Associate Professor Lisa Wood, Dr Karen Martin, Ms Elizabeth Whittaker, Dr Kaylene Zaretzky, School of Population Health, Swinburne University of Technology, UWA Business School, University of New South Wales, 'Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) Mark II 2015 to 2018' — $199,187  (2015-19)

SHELL AUSTRALIA EX RPS METOCEAN

Dr Ingrid Ward, School of Social Sciences, 'Undertaking Resin Peels from Marine Box Cores' — $12,243  ()

STATE HEALTH RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL (SHRAC)

Professor Sharon Parker, Professor Anu Rammohan, Winthrop Professor Jeffrey Hamdorf, Doctor Adrian Flemming, Dr Yee Leung, Professor Mark Griffin, Mr Joseph Carpini, Fiona Stanley Hospital, School of Psychology, School of Surgery, School of Women's and Infants' Health, UWA Business School, 'RTP - Success in the Operating Theatre: Multidisciplinary Pre-operative Briefings for Efficiency, Patient Safety and Staff Engagement' — $268,240  (2016-17)

SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY EX AUSTRALIAN HOUSING AND URBAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Associate Professor David McKenzie, Professor Paul Flatau, Dr Sean McNelis, Dr Kylie Valentine, Professor Adam Steen, Charles Sturt University, Swinburne University of Technology, UWA Business School, University of New South Wales, 'The Funding and Delivery of Homelessness Services - Case Study Evidence' — $26,918  (2015-16)

TELETHON KIDS INSTITUTE

Miss Janessa Pickering, Miss Ruth Thornton, Dr Lea-Ann Kirkham, Associate Professor Peter Richmond, Dr Christopher Blyth, Dr Nikki Mills, Dr Emma Best, Dr Tony Walls, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, 'Development of Digital PCR Methods to Quantitatively Assess NTHi and H. Haemolyticus Nasopharyngeal Density in Children with and without Recurrent Otitis Media' — $15,000  (2015)

UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA DAAD GERMAN RESEARCH COOPERATION

Professor Eric May, Dr Paul Stanwix, Professor Markus Richter, Professor Roland Span, Ruhr University Bochum, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, 'Investigating surface phenomena near fluid mixture dew points' — $24,500  (2016-17)

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE EX JDRF AUSTRALIA EX ARC SPECIAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Dr Elizabeth Davis, Professor Grant Morahan, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, UWA Centre for Medical Research, 'Special Research Initiative for Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes  - Environmental Determinants of Islet Autoimmunity (ENDIA)'—$829,337  (2015-17)

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE EX QUT EX ARC SPECIAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Dr Shino Konishi, Professor Leonard Collard, Mr Stephen Kinnane, Professor Barry Judd, Dr Malcolm Allbrook, Australian National University, RMIT University, School of Humanities, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia, 'National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network NIRAKN - Reframing Indigenous Biography' — $9,741  (2015)

WA ENERGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE WAERA EX CHEVRON

Professor Mark Griffin, Dr Shayne Loft, Mrs Karina Jorritsma, School of Psychology, 'Evaluation of a CDM Field Trial and Options for CDM Use to Support Field Operators' — $35,000  (2015)