NHMRC backs Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences projects with $7.8m in funding
L-R top row: Dr Dana Hutchinson, Professor Erica Sloan, Associate Professor Karen Gregory. L-R bottom row: Dr Carlo Giannangelo, Associate Professor Cornelia Landersdorfer.
18 December 2024
Five projects led by the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) have been awarded funding through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants scheme, worth $7.8 million.
The Ideas Grant scheme supports innovative and creative research projects addressing a specific question in any health and medical research area from discovery to implementation for researchers at all career stages.
The successful MIPS projects seek to solve problems across a diverse range of diseases including obesity and type 2 diabetes; psychiatric disorders; malaria; drug-resistant bacterias and cancer.
Director of MIPS, Professor Chris Porter, welcomed the funding and said the projects all aim to address unmet medical needs among some of the most prevalent health burdens across the globe.
“On behalf of MIPS I would like to extend my warm congratulations to the successful NHMRC Ideas grant recipients. Their projects are a prime example of the innovative and creative research required to advance new knowledge and outcomes across multiple areas of disease,” Professor Porter said.
Funded projects include:
| Project Title | Researcher | Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Impact of biased agonism at the GLP-1R in the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes | $2,488,624.03 | |
Sensory-sympathetic neural crosstalk regulates the tumour microenvironment | $1,606,948.76 | |
Dissecting the genetic diversity and therapeutic potential in targeting trace amine receptor 1 for psychiatric disorders | $1,446,409.00 | |
Discovery of New Antimalarials with a Novel Mechanism of Action and Irresistible Target | $1,164,771.50 | |
Optimising dosing strategies with new antibiotics against drug-resistant bacteria | $1,091,288.97 |
For more information about the Ideas Grants, visit the NHMRC website.
To read about other successful Monash recipients visit Monash News.
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