Strength to strength: Monash BDI almost doubles ARC grant success in 2018
This year, researchers from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) have almost doubled the number of Australian Research Council (ARC) project grants they received from 2017.
Securing more than $7.7 million in this latest round of ARC funding, our researchers received 14 Discovery Projects, worth almost $6.5 million, and three Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRAs), worth $1.2 million. This builds on the success of 2017, where Monash BDI researchers received 11 grants worth $4.5 million.
Professor John Carroll, Director of the Monash BDI, was thrilled with such an impressive increase in ARC funding across the institute.
“This year’s results have eclipsed those of 2017, and I want to congratulate all of our successful researchers,” Professor Carroll said.
“This funding will support projects ranging from the genetic mechanisms that generate limb diversity, the sporulation process of bacteria, the influences of transcranial stimulation on neural information encoding, the impact of environmental stress on cellular function and more. I look forward to seeing the results of the many fantastic projects funded in this round,” he said.
Announced yesterday by the Hon. Dan Tehan, Minister for Education, Monash University has received an unprecedented $37.9 million as part of the latest round of ARC funding to support 92 Discovery and Linkage Projects in 2019 – the most of any university in Victoria.
Professor Margaret Gardner AO FASSA, President and Vice-Chancellor, congratulated the academics for their leadership and contribution to new knowledge, saying that the results demonstrated Monash’s commitment to growing research capacity on an international scale.
“Being able to solve some of the greatest global challenges requires world-class vision by world-class researchers. Excellence in research can lead to lasting and positive change, and our Australian Research Council grant recipients will be able to pursue this kind of impact,” Professor Gardner said.
To see a full list of ARC grants per institution and discipline, please visit the following links – Discovery Projects 2019, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2019, Linkage Infrastructure 2019, Linkage Projects.
Congratulations to the Monash BDI’s 14 recipients of ARC Discovery Projects, and their teams
- Professor Mibel Aguilar Atomic scale precision engineering of cell-material interfaces
- Associate Professor Max Cryle Biosynthetic LEGO: enzymatic redesign to produce new vancomycin analogues
- Professor Roger Daly Dynamic regulation of cell signalling scaffolds
- Associate Professor Chen Davidovich Regulation of histone methylation by polycomb-like proteins
- Dr Luca Fiorenza A real-time biomechanical study of Neanderthal anterior dentition
- Professor Kieran Harvey How neurons maintain their fate
- Dr Wendy Imlach Mechanisms of itch - from endosomal signalling to neural circuits
- Professor David Jans Nuclear transport in stress
- Professor Dena Lyras A link between antibiotic resistance and bacterial sporulation
- Dr Farshad Mansouri The neural basis of the cognitive effects of prefrontal cortex stimulation
- Professor Christina Mitchell Phosphoinositide regulation of lysosome reformation during autophagy
- Professor Mike Ryan Machineries that maintain mitochondrial architecture
- Associate Professor Craig Smith Genetic regulation of wing reduction in the emu
- Professor Ian Smyth The cellular basis of branching morphogenesis during kidney development
Congratulations to the Monash BDI’s ARC DECRA recipients
- Dr Sarah Atkinson (Borg lab) Understanding intramolecular regulation of ubiquitin enzymes
- Dr Razvan Gamanut (Rosa lab) Involvement of the claustrum in coordinating brain circuits
- Dr Sandeep Gopal (Pocock lab) Calcium-mediated regulation of stem cell development