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
- 2025 - FMNHS Henry Krum ECR Publication Prize for Clincial Sciences
- 2025 - Tau2025 Partial Conference Fellowship
- 2024 - Tau2024 Partial Conference Fellowship
- 2024: Monash University Postgraduate Publication Award
- 2024 - Victorian Biomedical Imaging Capability (VBIC) Early Career Researcher Award
- 2023 AD/PD Junior Faculty Award
- 2023 Brain&BrainPET Early Career Travel Bursary
- 2022: Graduate Research Symposium Oral Presentation Prize
- 2022 Siemens Healthineers Research Prize
- 2022 ASMI Abstract award
- 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