MDHS researchers awarded NHMRC funding
Thirty-three MDHS researchers have been awarded funding in the current round of the NHMRC Ideas Grants Scheme.
Congratulations to the thirty-three MDHS researchers who were awarded funding in the recent round of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants Scheme. This is a wonderful result for our researchers and their innovative health projects. The research projects range from understanding the neural circuits driving stress-related eating, whether allergies start with the skin, novel therapies for slowing vision loss, optimizing diabetes therapies, mapping B-cell fate to improve humoral immunity to malaria, and the global analysis of metabolic targets in Leishmania parasites.
Below is the list of MDHS recipients and their grant titles:
Associate Professor Simon Murray | Grant title |
Professor Christopher McDevitt | Harnessing structural insights to block pneumococcal manganese uptake |
Professor Malcolm McConville | Global analysis of metabolic targets in Leishmania parasites |
Professor John Wade | Engineering of novel insulin analogues for improved management of diabetes |
Dr Ashraful Haque | Mapping B-cell fate to improve humoral immunity to malaria |
Associate Professor Hayley Newton | Coxiella pathogenesis and Effector-Effector Interplay |
Associate Professor Ilia Voskoboinik | Cytotoxic T cell granules – a matter of life and death |
Dr Laura Edgington-Mitchell | Legumain at the cutting edge of oral cancer |
Dr Kirstan Vessey | Novel therapies for slowing vision loss caused by retinal degeneration |
Dr Maria del Pilar Dominguez Rodriguez | TARGETING DEREGULATED EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS IN LYMPHOMA |
Associate Professor Lucy Palmer | The role of memory engrams in the cortex |
Dr Magdalene Montgomery | Development of multifaceted glucose-plus therapies - A focus on Hexosaminidase A (HEXA) |
Associate Professor Andrew Zalesky | Normative reference ranges for brain phenotypes in psychiatry |
Associate Professor Natalie Hannan | Improving the pipeline for translation of therapies for serious complications of pregnancy |
Dr Stuart McDougall | Infiltrating central command to selectively alter autonomic function |
Associate Professor Daniel Scott | α1-adrenoceptor protein structures and selective tools: towards novel treatments for heart failure and Alzheimer’s disease |
Dr Kevin Man | Understanding the biology of adipose tissue regulatory T cells to treat metabolic disease |
Associate Professor Jason Ivanusic | On-Demand, Nanoparticle-Based Analgesia for Musculoskeletal Pain |
Associate Professor Paul Neeson | TARGETING COLD TUMOURS WITH TRIPLE THERAPY |
Associate Professor Michael Hildebrand | Using Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy for Detection of Mosaic Brain Mutations |
Dr Kristin Brown | Investigating the role of cellular metabolism in regulating antigen presentation and tumour immune escape |
Dr Jennifer Devlin | Targeting dysregulated transcription in cancer through Cyclin-Dependent-Kinase 11 |
Dr Paul Beavis | Engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that induce host anti-tumour immunity |
Dr Brad Gilbertson | Investigation of the structure of the influenza A virus genome and how it directs reassortment to generate novel strains |
Dr Paul Beavis | CRISPR Engineering of CAR T Cells to Enhance Efficacy in Solid Tumours |
Professor Wayne Phillips | Submucosal glands as the origin of Barrett’s oesophagus and oesophageal adenocarcinoma |
Professor William Heath | The role of resident and circulating CD8 T cell memory in the control of liver infections |
Dr Robyn Brown | Why do women overeat? Understanding the neural circuits driving stress-related eating |
Associate Professor Belinda Parker | Boosting cellular immunogenicity to combat metastatic cancer |
Professor Paul Gleeson | Establishment of novel, neuronal-cell based, therapeutic screens for Alzheimer’s disease using patients stem cells |
Professor Gordon Lynch | Interrogating the therapeutic potential of slow muscle programming in cancer |
Associate Professor Adrian Lowe | Do allergies start with the skin? A novel lipidomic analysis of early life skin to identify “high risk” children and potential targets for preventive interventions |
Professor Leanne Delbridge | Towards optimizing diabetes therapies for cardioprotection: Precision approaches for women |
Associate Professor Simon Murray | Promoting myelin repair in a refractory environment in vivo |
Doctor Linda Fothergill | A new frontier in receptor biology relevant to treatment of |
Professor John Furness | A new frontier in receptor biology relevant to treatment of |
For more details on the Ideas Grant, visit the NHMRC website.