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Funding source	Investigators	Title	Amount
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Australian Centre for HIV and Hepatitis Virology Research	Cunningham, Kim, Jackson, Dyer, Jones, Fernandez	TLR2 agonist - HIV peptide induction of the Th17 responses: A new immunotherapeutic and vaccine strategy?	$113,000
Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group	M Poon	The role of environmental factor in the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetes - a 14 year follow up of an incidnet cohort	$25,000
Australian Research Council	Y Zurynski, E Elliott, H Leonard, J Christodoulou	Psychosocial and economic impacts of rare diseases on Australian children, families and health professionals	$316,780
Australian Research Council	K North	Molecular dissection of the functional regions of genes that encode actinins (ACTN2 and ACTN3) and their contribution to normal variation in skeletal muscle function	$300,000
Australian Research Council	A Tong	Protecting equity and ethics in organ donation: patient, public and professional perspectives	$375,000
Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Foundation	D Little	BMP-2 and Bisphosphonate treatment of Avascular Necrosis in Piglet model	$32,725
Children’s Tumor Foundation	D Little	The use of MEK ibhibitors in Nf1 pseudarthrosis	$30,000
Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation	L Lau	MYCN/c-MYC-mediated regulation of the telomerase complex in neuroblastoma	$74,800
Clive and Vera Ramaciotti Foundation	J Ayer	Mechanism of action of Adiponectin.	$75,000
Foundation for Children	P Caldwell	Randomised controlled trial of timed voiding using an alarm watch vs standard watch for the treatment of daytime urinary incontinence in children	$163,920
Diabetes Australia Research Trust	M Poon	The role of environmental factors in the development of microvascular and macrovascular complications in type 1 diabetes – a 14 year follow up of an incident cohort	$60,000
IRSF Research grant	J Christodoulou	Rett Syndrome Foundation MECP2 Database (RettBASE)	$35,165
MS Research Australia	F Brilot, R Dale	Autoantibody in the first episode of demyelination, and risk of progression to MS in Australian children	$50,000
National Health & Medical Research Council	D Little, J Cooper-White, A Ruys, A Schindeler	Pre-clinical validation of a novel implant for bone tissue engineering	$421,175
National Health & Medical Research Council	K North, N Laing, K Nowak,N Clarke, M Buckley	Neuromuscular disorders: Gene discovery and disease mechanism	$772,350
National Health & Medical Research Council	E Elliott, J Latimer, C Bower, J Fitzpatrick, A Martiniuk	The Lililwan Project: Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the Fitzroy Valley	$1,024,474
National Health & Medical Research Council	R Skinner, S Cooper, K McCaffery, G Zimet, K McGeehan, P Whyte, D Regan	Randomised Controlled Evaluation of a Complex Intervention to Promote Uptake of School-based HPV Vaccination	$723,634
National Health & Medical Research Council	C Jones, S Alexander	Defining the contribution of skin gamma delta T cells to cutaneous immunosurveillance, immunity and disease after HSV infection.	$581,010
National Health & Medical Research Council	J Christodoulou, S Cooper	Gene Discovery and Functional Studies to Reveal Mechanisms Underlying Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Disorders.	$368,510
National Health & Medical Research Council	S Alexander, K Dwyer, YM Wang	Role of Purines in renal and transplant injury	$539,610
National Health & Medical Research Council	I Alexander, P Tam, G Yeoh, D Russell	Cellular therapy for genetic liver disease exploiting induced pluripotent stem cells and liver progenitor cells	$770,175
National Health & Medical Research Council	I Alexander, S Ranganathan, M Cavazzana-Calvo	Analysis and manipulation of the genome-wide integration signatures of gamma-retroviral and lentiviral vectors in human haematopoietic stem cells	$591,125
National Health & Medical Research Council	N Laing, K North, N Clarke	Approaches to therapy for the skeletal muscle actin diseases.	$881,175
National Health & Medical Research Council	K O’Grady, A Chang, K Grimwood, P Morris, H Smith-Vaughan, E Mulholland, P Torzillo, A Cripps, N Wood, A Revell	A multi-centre, double blind randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of 10 valent pneumococcal –Protein D conjugate vaccine in reducing respiratory exacerbations in children aged 18 months with suppuratives lung disease	$1,122,492
National Health & Medical Research Council	R Andrews, K O’Grady, T Nolan, P Richmond, N Wood, S Lambert, M Chatfield	FluMuM: a prospective cohort study of mother-infant pairs assessing the effectiveness of maternal influenza vaccination in prevention of influenza in early infancy	$2,481,063
National Health & Medical Research Council	C Semsarian, D Winlaw	Genetic Basis of Valvular Heart Disease	$434,255
National Health & Medical Research Council	E Banks, S Eades, C D’Este, S Bailey, S Redman, A Williamson, A Purcell, H Gunasekera, P McIntyre, K Clapham	Longitudinal investigation of health outcomes in urban Aboriginal children: SEARCH follow-up	$1,727,460
National Health & Medical Research Council	A L Ponsonby, F Cameron, M Craig, A Kemp	Enterovirus, vitamin D status and inflammation at the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes in childhood	$398,047
National Health & Medical Research Council	J Couper, M Craig, P Colman, P Baghurst, W Rawlinson, T Jones, A Cotterill	Early environmental determinants of pancreatic islet autoimmunity: a pregnancy to early life cohort study in children at risk of type 1 diabetes	$1,083,720
National Health & Medical Research Council	R Heine, A Kakakios	Effect of a four-food elimination diet in children with eosinophilic oesophagitis a multi-centre, randomised controlled trial and investigation of disease mechanisms.	$520,448
National Health & Medical Research Council	L Askie , L Baur, K Campbell, L Daniels , B Taylor, LM Wen, K Hesketh, A Magarey, R Taylor, A Martin	Generating evidence of reduced rates of overweight/obesity in children: value adding to four established Australasian early intervention trials	$187,018
National Health & Medical Research Council	S Chadban, H Wu, S Alexander	Tolerance or rejection: The role of innate immunity in determining the fate of a kidney allograft.	$489,255
National Health & Medical Research Council	K North, N Laing, A Kornberg, J Burns, M Ryan,N Clarke, A Corbett, K Refshauge, M Buckley, C McLean	Centre for Research Excellence in Neuromuscular Disorders	$2,496,650
National Health & Medical Research Council	R MacIntyre, P McIntyre, R Booy, J Leask, N Wood, C Jones, R Menzies, J Kaldor, P Beutels, D Dwyer	Immunisation in understudied and special risk populations	$2,499,969
National Health & Medical Research Council	J Craig, E Banks, S Eades, C D'Este, S Bailey, S Redman, A Williamson, S Pope, C Parter, H Gunasekera	SEARCH: better evidence, better health for urban Aboriginal children	$1,395,760
Pablove Foundation	L Lau	Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) in Neuroblastoma	$49,500
Petpetual Foundation	K North	Purchase Mobile Spectral Domain OCT System	$23,000
The Ian Potter Foundation	S Copper	To attend the 27th International Papillomavirus Conference, Berlin, Germany	$2,100
The University of Sydney	K North, I Alexander, S Alexander, J Christodoulou, D Catchpoole, N Clarke	Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM)	$75,000
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Cancer Institute NSW	R Fernando	Bridging the Gap - Developing a Palliative Care Service Specific to Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer	$156,742
Children's Tumor Foundation	J Payne	The Neural Basis and Treatment of reading disability in children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1	$100,000
National Health & Medical Research Council	E Elliott	Practitioner Fellowships	$448,908
National Health & Medical Research Council	N Clarke	Advancing the diagnosis and treatment of inherited muscle disorders	$391,076
National Health & Medical Research Council	A Tong	Consumer preferences in chronic kidney disease	$294,892
National Health & Medical Research Council	G Wong	Cancer and chronic kidney disease	$248,424
National Health & Medical Research Council	T Snelling	Monitoring the effectiveness and safety of vaccination in Australia	$248,424
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National Health & Medical Research Council	N Pride	The Identification and treatment of cognitive and social deficits in neurofibromatosis	$78,625
National Health & Medical Research Council	R McGee	Trials and outcomes in Paediatric surgery	$80,938
National Health & Medical Research Council	M Menzes	Peripheral Neuropathy in Children with Mitochondrial Disease	$45,188
National Health & Medical Research Council	D Campbell	To investigate rates of peritonitis in incident peritoneal dialysis patients in Australia and perform a pilot study aimed at reducing these rates	$74,750
National Health & Medical Research Council	P Lopez-Vargas	A multi-component education program for patients with early stage chronic kidney disease	$63,000
National Health & Medical Research Council	M Ho	Obesity and insulin resistance in adolescents
National Health & Medical Research Council	E Palmer	Finding a Drug Treatment for Rett Syndrome

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