NHMRC Investigator Grants Success
This week, Monash University has been awarded over $43 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants, and a new Centre for Research Excellence, to support the work of more than 30 research leaders.
The grants are focused on the four pillars of health and medical research: biomedical, clinical, public health and health services.
Congratulations to all of our Faculty grant recipients:
'A molecular investigation into T cell antigen receptor function and dysfunction in humans’ Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Awarded:$3,927,015 (Leadership 3) | ‘Phosphatases in the pathogenesis of obesity and cancer’ Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Awarded:$1,927,015 (Leadership 3) |
Understanding complex I assembly for better diagnosis and future treatment’ Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Awarded:$650,740 (Emerging Leadership 1) | ‘Defining the mechanisms that drive cell competition and plasticity in stomach cancer.’ Dr Dustin Flanagan Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Awarded:$650,740 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
‘Mitochondria live imaging in mammalian preimplantation embryos’ Australian Regenerative Medical Institute Awarded:$1,270,120 (Emerging Leadership 2) | ‘Improving the Impact and Efficiency of Perioperative Clinical Trials’ Central Clinical School Awarded:$3,241,612 (Leadership 3) |
'Better treatments for autoimmune kidney disease and vasculitis' School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Awarded:$2,297,570 (Leadership 2) | ‘Decoding the drivers of food choices towards sustainable self-management of obesity’ Professor Antonio Verdejo-Garcia Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Awarded:$2,248,555 (Leadership 1) |
Harnessing the power of diverse data to model population impacts of injury and inform health and social policy’ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$1,885,378 (Leadership 2) | ‘Implementation research: Delivering impact at the interface between reproductive and metabolic women’s health’ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$1,870,806 (Leadership 3) |
Health Risk Assessment of Bushfire Smoke on Children and Pregnancy Outcomes’ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$1,570,120 (Emerging Leadership 2) | ‘Unravelling the Contributions of Sleep Dysfunction to Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia’ Associate Professor Matthew Pase Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Awarded:$1,306,096 (Emerging Leadership 2) |
‘Risk and resilience in Alzheimer's pathogenesis, cognitive decline and clinical disease progression’ Associate Professor Yen Ying Lim Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health Awarded:$1,306,096 (Emerging Leadership 2) | ‘Mitigating the consequence of preeclampsia for mother and child’ School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Awarded:$1,285,060 (Emerging Leadership 2) |
‘Genetically defining and pharmacologically exploiting new oncogenic dependencies in Myc-driven lymphoid cancer’ School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Awarded:$1,228,048 (Emerging Leadership 2) | 'Improving assisted reproductive technology outcomes - a personalised approach' School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Awarded:$650,740 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
‘Improving Neonatal Resuscitation' School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Awarded:$450,370 (Emerging Leadership 1) | ‘Cell Therapies for Newborn Infants: Translating Promise to Benefits‘ School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Awarded:$431,671 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
'Reducing Resuscitation Errors' Central Clinical School Awarded:$1,500,000 (Leadership 2) | ‘Stereo-EEG and precision neuropsychology: optimising epilepsy surgery and minimising neurocognitive risk’ Central Clinical School Awarded:$650,740 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
‘Dissecting the impacts of the bacterial host versus plasmid on the AMR burden’ Central Clinical School Awarded:$650,740 (Emerging Leadership 1) | ‘Transforming outcomes by investigating integrated treatments for methamphetamine use and trauma’ Central Clinical School Awarded:$450,370 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
‘Improving evidence synthesis methods to enhance decision making about public health and policy interventions’ Associate Professor Joanne McKenzie School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$2,248,555 (Leadership 1) | ‘Healthcare resource utilisation and long term outcomes following critical illness’ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$613,240 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
‘New Knowledge and Research Capacity for Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change with Big Data, Novel Approach and New Technology’ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$2,598,844 (Leadership 1) | ‘Improving Outcomes after Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation’ School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Awarded:$450,370 (Emerging Leadership 1) |
Centre for Research Excellence to transform outcomes of critically ill patients in ICU (CRE-ICU) Led by Professor Carol Hodgson School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine |
View the full list of Monash grant recipients here.