Our achievements

Grants

  • Dr Lucy Vivash
    • 2019 – 2024 - MRFF Rare Diseases and Unmet Need: Evaluating the effectiveness and safety of sodium selenate as a disease modifying treatment for patients with behavioural variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD)
    • 2020 – 2025 - MRFF Neurological Diseases: Sodium Selenate as a Disease Modifying Treatment for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
    • 2023 – 2028 - MRFF Rare Diseases and Unmet Need: A Phase 2, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of sodium selenate as a disease modifying treatment for chronic drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (SELECT Trial)
    • 2021 – 2025 - Manufacturing and commercialization of [18F]-PET radiotracers
    • 2021 – 2023 - Novel radioligands for PET imaging of multiple sclerosis diagnosis
    • 2022-2023 – In vivo mapping of neuroprotective neuroinflammation using a novel PET radiotracer
  • Dr Janet Leung
    • 2023 - 2024 -  NHMRC Equipment Grant: Lateral Fluid Percussion Injury (LFPI) Device
    • 2025 – 2026 - Monash University STM ‘Find a Friend’ Collaborative Seed Grant: Validating a P2X7 Receptor PET tracer in a xenograft mouse model of glioblastoma

Awards

  • Dr Roxane Dilcher
  • Dr Janet Leung
    • 2024 Monash University – ECR Travel grant
    • 2023 WONOEP Raman Sankar Bursaries for Young Investigators
  • Ms Cassandra Marotta
    • 2024 Students of Brain Research Symposium First Prize Poster presentation, "Free-water imaging in progressive supranuclear palsy"
  • Ms Taylor Solomon
    • 2024 Students of Brain Research Symposium People's choice Poster presentation, "Volumetric brain differences across genetic subtypes of frontotemporal dementia"
  • Dr Merran Courtney
    • 2023 ANZAN James Lance Young Investigator Prize
    • 2022 RMH Stephen Davis Award