2009 grant success

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Funding source	Investigators	Title	Amount
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Australian Orthopaedic Association	A/Prof David Little, Dr Oliver Birke, Dr Aaron Schindeler	Muscle cell contribution to Bone Repair	$38,500
Australian Research Council	Prof Peter A Castaldi, Prof Elizabeth J Elliott, Prof Anthony Scott, Prof Sandy Middleton, Prof Jonathan C Craig, Dr Catherine D'Este, Dr Christine L Paul, Dr Patrick McElduff, Prof Carol A Pollock, Dr Mary Haines, Prof Sally Redman, Prof Elizabeth M Yano, Dr Hunter Watt, Ms Kate Needham	Organisational change in healthcare: Determinants of effective clinical networks	$292,000
Australian Research Council	Prof Nicole Packer, Prof Phillip J Robinson, Prof Mark von Itzstein, Prof Robert C Baxter, Prof Patrick P Tam, Prof Kathryn N North, Prof Adam McCluskey, A/Prof Mark P Molloy, Prof Jürgen Götz, Dr Mark E Graham, Dr Sue M Firth, Dr Mark A Baker, Dr Geraldine M O'Neill, Dr Russell J Diefenbach, A/Prof Tracy M Bryan, Dr Rachael Z Murray, Dr Beric R Henderson, A/Prof Jennifer A Byrne, A/Prof Ann K Goodchild, A/Prof Paul A Haynes, Dr Megan Chircop, Prof Mark S Baker, Prof Roger R Reddel, Prof Jens Coorssen, Prof Antony Braithwaite	Beyond Proteomics: Structure and function of protein modifications	$500,000
Australian Rotary Health Research Fund	Dr Belinda Barton, Dr Luce Dalla-Pozza	Health-related qulity of life and social support in children newly diagnosed with cancer	$36,000
Bone Growth Foundation	Dr Michelle McDonald	Novel Treatment for Augmentation of Distraction Osteogenesis and Bone Healing	$58,710
Brain Australia Foundation	A/Prof Brian Owler	Choroidal aquaporin 1 dependent CSF production in the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus	$40,000
Cancer Institute NSW	Dr Geoffrey McCowage, Prof Peter Shaw, Dr Draga Barbaric, Dr David Ziegler, Prof Glenn Marshall, Dr Luciano Della Pozza	New mechanisms to facilitate collaborative efforts for paediatric cancer clinical trials	$697,387
Cancer Institute NSW	Prof Phillip Robinson, Prof Roger Reddel, Dr Mark Graham, Dr Megan Chircop, Prof Anthony Braithwaite, A/Prof Tracy Bryan, Dr Scott Cohen, Dr Danilel Speidel, Valentina Valova, A/Prof Beric Henderson,Prof Jacob George, Dr Jennifer Byrne, Dr Peter Hains, Dr Nicolai Bache, Dr Daniel Catchpoole, A/Prof David Little	A superior mass spectrometry system for ultra-sensitive cancer phosphoproteomics	$979,371
Foundation for Children	A/Prof Karen Waters	Ventilatory Control in Paediatric Obstructive sleep Apnoea (OSA)	$66,250
Healthways	Prof Nadine Henley, Prof Elizabeth Elliott	Alcohol and Pregnancy: Health Promotion messages that work	$76,868
Heart Foundation	Dr Sarah Garnett, Susie Burrell, Dr Helen Woodhead, A/Prof Katharine Steinbeck, A/Prof Many Noakes, A/Prof Chris Cowell, Prof Louise Baur	Diet intervention for adolescents with prediabetes	$128,209
Heart Foundation	Prof Louise Baur, A/Prof Kate Steinbeck, Prof Andrew Hill	The Loozit weight management trial in adolescents	$129,000
Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia	Dr Fabienne Brilot, Dr Russell Dale	Biomarkers in early paediatric CNS demyelination, and risk of progression to multiple sclerosis	$26,000
National Health and Medical Research Council	Dr Geraldine O'Neill	The Cell biology of glioblastoma infiltration	$508,225
National Health and Medical Research Council	Dr Stephen Alexander, Prof David Harris, Dr Yiping Wang, Dr Yuan Min Wang	Gamma-Delta Tregs, CD8 Tregs and selected natural Tregs to treat renal injury	$583,500
National Health and Medical Research Council	A/Prof Kim Donaghue, A/Prof Timothy Jones, Dr Ning Cheung, Prof Jennifer Couper, A/Prof Maria Craig, A/Prof Fergus Cameron	Intervention to reduce the risk of diabetic retinopathy and early adverse retianl changes in type 1 diabetes	$1,226,875
National Health and Medical Research Council	A/Prof Chris Cowell, A/Prof David Little, Dr Craig Munns, Prof Bruce Foster, A/Prof Margaret Zacharin	Bisphosphonate Treatment of Childhood Femoral Head Avascular Necrosis due to Perthes Disease	$1,305,625
National Health and Medical Research Council	Dr Rachel Skinner, Prof Martha Hickey, Dr Eugen Mattes, A/Pr Dorota Doherty, Prof Anthony Smith, Prof Susan Rosenthal	Childhood determinants of risky sexual behaviour in adolescence: a prospective cohort study.	$371,025
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Ian Alexander, Dr Matthew McCormack, A/Prof Stephen Alexander, Prof Adrian Thrasher, Dr Samantha Ginn	Gene therapy, stress haematopoiesis and the risk of malignancy	$595,500
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Richard Mattick, Prof Steve Allsop, Prof Jackob Najman, Dr Delyse Hutchinson, Prof Elizabeth Elliott, Dr Lucy Burns, Dr Susan Jacobs	Impact of Parental Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Substance Use on Infant Development and Family Functioning	$1,910,470
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Philip Sambrook, A/Pr David Little, A/Pr Lynette March, Prof Rachelle Buchbinder	A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of zoledronate therapy in osteonecrosis of the hip	$511,425
National Health and Medical Research Council	A/Pr Roger Fulton, Prof Robert Howman-Giles	The Clincial Impact of Event-based Motion Correction in Paediatric PET/CT Brain Imaging	$267,250
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Phillipa Hay, Prof Stephen Touyz, Dr Caroline Meyer, Dr John Arcelus, Dr Sloane Madden, Dr Ross Crosby, Dr Kathleen Pike	Taking a LEAP forward in the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: A randomised controlled trial.	$557,100
National Health and Medical Research Council	A/Pr Amanda Leach, Prof Edward Mulholland, Prof Mathu Santosham, A/Pr Paul Torzillo, A/Pr Ngiare Brown, Prof Peter McIntyre, Ms Anne Balloch, Dr Heidi Smith-Vaughan, A/Pr Susan Skull	Single versus combination pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (13PCV and PHiD-CV) for high-risk Aboriginal children (COMBO)	$2,870,025
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Dinah Reddihough, Dr Catherine Marraffa, Prof Philip Hazell, Dr Katherine Lee, A/Pr Michael Kohn, Dr John Wray	Multi-site randomised controlled trial of fluoxetine in children and adolescents with autism	$481,825
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Paul Barach, A/Pr David Winlaw, Prof Rick Iedema, A/Pr Julie Johnson, Dr Ken Catchpole, A/Pr Emile Bacha, Dr Antonius Schouten	Human Factors and Patient Safety during Paediatric Heart Surgery: An Evidence-based Approach to Improve Patient Outcome	$780,675
National Health and Medical Research Council	A/Pr Yves D'udekem D'acoz, A/Pr David Winlaw, Dr Tom Gentles, A/Pr Robert Weintraub	The Australia and New Zealand Fontan Registry: a Growing Population of Young Adults with Heart Failure	$124,500
National Health and Medical Research Council	Ms Lisa Devereux, Dr Daniel Catchpoole, Dr Anna Defazio, Dr Andrew Holloway, Dr Richard Lake, Prof Bruce Robinson, Dr Christopher Schmidt, Ms Heather Thorne, Dr Nik Zeps	Australasian Biospecimen Network-Oncology	$2,000,000
National Health and Medical Research Council	Dr Mary Haines, Prof JonathonCraig, Prof Elizabeth Elliot	Determinants of effective clinical networks	$338,850
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Elizabeth Elliott, Prof Robert Booy, Prof Peter McIntyre, Dr Yvonne Zurynski, Dr Jim Buttery, Dr Peter Richmond, Prof Mike Gold, Dr Helen Marshall, Dr Jennifer Royle, Dr Nick Wood	Characterisation of H1N1 Influenza 09 in hospitalised children using Paediatric Active Enhanced Diseases Surveillance	$118,513
National Health and Medical Research Council	Prof Robert Booy, Prof Dominic Dwyer, Prof Elizabeth Elliott, Dr Leon Herron	An unblinded randomized study of influenza A/H1N1 09 resistance to oseltamivir and zanamivir	$149,460
NeuroScience Research - Pfizer	Dr Russell Dale	An autoimmune model of parkinsonism and neuropsychiatric disease: functional effects of auto-antibodies on dopamine metabolism and neurotransmission	$35,000
Perpetual Foundation	Dr Gerldine O'Neill	Confocal Microscope	$100,000
Perpetual Foundation	Prof Nadia Badawi	Neurodevelopmental outcome following major cardiac and non-cardiac surgery in infants less than ninety days of age	$17,200
Pfizer Australian Research	Dr Kate Hale, Prof Taina Sorrell, Prof Peter Shaw, Dr Christa Nath	Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of voriconazole in children with cancer who are receiving this drug as prevention or treatment of suspected or proven invasive fungal infection	$49,913
Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation	Dr Justin Lees	The regulation of Cancer cell migration within solid tissue	$50,000
RISS	Prof Ian Alexander	Expansion of Human Calls for Transplant	$657,500
The Royal Australian Collage of Physiaians	Dr Anne Durkan	DNA Vaccination against CCL2 and CX3CL1 in a murine model of atherosclerosis	$90,000
Tourette Syndrome Association	Dr Russell Dale	Detection and Characterization of pathogenic autoantibodies targeting the dopamine system in PANDAD and Tourette Syndrome.	$71,600
University of Sydney	Prof Kathryn North, Dr Belinda Barton, A/Pr E.Arthur Shores	Early identification of cognitive deficits in children with neurofibromatosistype 1	$50,000
University of Sydney	Prof John Christodoulou, Prof Patrick Tam	Indentification of Novel MECP2 Targets: Towrads the discovery of Innovative Approaches to the treatment of Rett Syndrome	$50,000
University of Sydney	A/Prof Karen Waters, A/Prof Francis Lannigan, Prof Vicki Anderson, A/Prof Rosemary Horne, A/Prof Kurt Lushington	Does Adenotonsillectomy improve Neurocognition in pre-school children with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea	$50,000
University of Sydney	A/Prof Christine Clarke, Dr Stuart Turville, Dr Rachael Murray, Dr Megan Chircop, Dr Therese Becker, Dr Geraldine O'Neill, Dr Linda Bendell, Dr Beric Henderson, Prof Anthony Cunningham, Prof Phillip Robinson, Prof Patrick Tam, Prof Richard Kefford, Prof Kathryn North, Prof Roger Reddel, Dr Helen Rizos, Dr Monica Miranda-Saksena	Deltavision Core Image Restoration System with QLM	$100,000
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National Health and Medical Research Council	Dr Yuyan Chen	Increased Tumor Protein D52 expression as a marker of tumour predispostion, and a possible role in DNA repair	$285,000
Back to Top Scholarships
Cancer Institute NSW	Cuc Bach	Understanding focal adhesion dynamics in cell migration	$50,000
Fullbright	Prof Joshua Burns	Closing in on a cure for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease	$30,000
The Royal Australian Collage of Physiaians	Dr Myra Poon	The Changing Phenotype of type 1 Diabetes- The increasing role of the environment	$50,000

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