$40m+ for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in Ideas Grant Scheme
Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences researchers have continued their success in the latest round of funding, awarded in excess of $40m, across 43 projects in the highly competitive 2020 NHMRC Ideas Grant scheme, for innovative research projects.
Ideas Grants support innovative and creative research, researchers at all career stages, and any area of health and medical research from discovery to implementation. The Ideas Grant scheme is not intended to support research where a clinical trial or cohort study is the primary objective.
Congratulations to all our researchers.
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
- Harnessing macrophage-derived cytokine signalling in skeletal muscle regeneration - Professor Peter Currie
- Identification of novel mediators of bone catch-up growth - Dr Alberto Roselló-Díez
- Shedding light onto the structural secrets inside pluripotent stem cells in real-time - Jennifer Zenker
- Reversing age-related impairment of myelin repair - a novel therapy for MS - Dr Tobias Merson
Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Anatomy and Developmental Biology
- Neuronal Regulation of Systemic Metabolic Stress - Professor Roger Pocock
- Mitigating the risks of mitochondrial donation - Professor John Carroll
- Characterising the function of niche-derived Neuregulin 1 in colorectal cancer - Dr Thierry Jarde
- Developing an in vitro model of a human blastocyst - Professor Jose Polo
- Reprogramming human fibroblasts into induced trophoblast stem cells - Professor Jose Polo
- Developing new immunotherapeutics through studying immune effectors in situ - Dr Ruby Law
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Developing high throughput single cell proteomics - Associate Professor Alex de Marco
- Immuno-metabolic interactions of the fungal superbug Candida auris - Professor Ana Traven
- Combining Antibiotics with Innate Immunity to overcome multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus - Associate Professor Max Cryle
- Does chronic stress drive obesity and type 2 diabetes? - Professor Tony Tiganis
- A novel, actionable pathway promoting metastasis of triple negative breast cancer - Professor Roger Daly
- The role of COX2 in cancer-associated immune suppression - Dr Anne Fletcher
Microbiology
- The role of host proteases in exacerbating enteric infectious disease - Professor Dena Lyras
- Developing improved therapies for cytomegalovirus infections by overcoming viral strain-diversity - Professor Mariapia Degli-Esposti
Physiology
- Mechanisms underlying the generation of spontaneous contractions in human uterine muscle: Potential therapeutic target for dysfunctional labour - Emeritus Professor Helena Parkington
- Motivation for starvation: understanding the neurobiology of anorexia nervosa - Dr Claire Foldi
School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health
Hudson Institute
- Should you be eating that? Food-derived bacteria and their role in treating disease Dr Sam Forster
- Improving the diagnosis of Disorders Sex Development (DSD) - Professor Vincent Harley
- The role of interferon epsilon in ovarian cancer - Professor Paul Hertzog
Medicine
- Unravelling NET confusion in Vasculitis - Dr Kim O'Sullivan
- Interferon Epsilon as a novel regulator of host-bacterial interaction in homeostasis, infection and inflammation - Professor David Nikolic-Paterson
Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Soft wearable patches for stillbirth prevention - Professor Euan Wallace and Dr Vinayak Smith (Project lead - Professor Wenlong Cheng)
Paediatrics
- A new mechanism of tissue fibrosis – a small peptide regulator of the TGF-beta1/Smad pathway - Dr Edward Giles
Psychiatry
- ARX- A hub gene for a common biological pathway in schizophrenia - Dr Rachel Hill
- Betacellulin: defining a novel sub-type in schizophrenia - Professor Suresh Sundram
Central Clinical School
Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
- Gene editing to cure sickle cell disease - Professor Andrew Perkins
Neuroscience
- Serum neurofilament light as a biomarker to improve management of mild traumatic brain injuries - Dr Stuart McDonald
Diabetes
- Preventing diabetic complications using anti-inflammatory peptides - Dr Christos Tikellis
- Cytosine methylation predicts diabetic nephropathy progression - Professor Sam El-Osta
Immunology
- Therapeutic targeting of interleukin-22 for severe pediatric urinary tract infection and associated renal complications - Dr Malcolm Starkey
- Molecular dissection of allergen sensitisation and immunotherapy: direct application to precision medicine in treatment of asthmavan - Associate Professor Menno van Zelm
- Manipulating antibody production to maximise memory in vaccine responses - Dr Isaac Quast
- Harnessing tyrosine metabolism to combat respiratory diseases - Professor Benjamin Marsland
Infectious Diseases
- Virulence Associated small RNAs in Acinetobacter baumannii - Professor Anton Peleg
- Targeting Antimicrobial Resistance and Host Immune Evasion in Staphylococcus aureus - Professor Anton Peleg
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine
- Predicting fracture outcomes from clinical Registry data using Artificial Intelligence Supplemented models for Evidence-informed treatment (PRAISE) study - Professor Belinda Gabbe
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
- Understanding the role of light exposure in individual differences in the circadian response to shift work - Dr Tracey Sletten.
- LAPSE: Is the ADHD brain a sleepy brain? - Dr Thomas Andrillon
- Identifying a modifiable risk factor for PTSD: insomnia-related disruption of trauma recovery mechanisms - Dr Sean Drummond
Eastern Health Clinical School
- Enabling evidence-informed policy to address Australia’s opioid crisis - Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen
Read the Monash University announcement here.