Prof. Pablo Moscato

Work Phone	(02) 492 16056
Fax	(02) 492 16929
Email	Pablo.Moscato@newcastle.edu.au
Office	ES231, Engineering Science - D.w. George

Funding

Summary

Number of grants	39
Total funding	$9,219,239

For project grants received while at an institution other that the University of Newcastle, details are shown in italics.

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2013 (2 grants)

DVC(R) Research Support for Future Fellow (FT12)$60,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Special Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$60,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2013	2016
GNo:G1201105

Solving challenging combinatorial optimization problems in bioinformatics by designing high-performance metaheuristics in GPU-CPU supercomputers$20,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Doctor Regina Berretta, Associate Professor Carlos Cotta, Dr Michael Langston, Professor Fred Glover, Mr Manuel Ujaldon Martinez
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Near Miss Grant
Total Amount	Role
$20,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2013	2013
GNo:G1300461

2012 (4 grants)

Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimisation problems in bioinformatics$854,468

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Future Fellowships
Total Amount	Role
$854,468	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2016
GNo:G1101095

Memetic algorithms and adaptive memory metaheuristics for large scale combinatorial optimisation problems arising in biomarker discovery $320,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Doctor Regina Berretta, Associate Professor Carlos Cotta, Dr Michael Langston, Professor Fred Glover
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$320,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2014
GNo:G1100292

Project EVA: an environmentally responsible facility for interdisciplinary supercomputing applications$263,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Laureate Professor Jon Borwein, Conjoint Professor Keith Jones, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Professor Mark Parsons, Professor Michael Ostwald, Professor Hugh Craig, Conjoint Associate Professor Peter Greer, Associate Professor Stephan Chalup, Doctor Regina Berretta
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Equipment Grant
Total Amount	Role
$263,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2012
GNo:G1100627

MRSP Infrastructure (11-12)- IBM Fellow - HMRI Bioinformatics Fellowship$100,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
MRSP Infrastructure Grant
Total Amount	Role
$100,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2012	2012
GNo:G1200516

2011 (5 grants)

HMRI MRSP Infrastructure Grant (10-11) - IBM$115,480

Project Team
Professor Rodney Scott, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
NSW Office for Science & Medical Research
Scheme
Medical Research Support Program
Total Amount	Role
$115,480	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2011
GNo:G1001066

HMRI MRSP Infrastructure (11-12)- IBM$114,455

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
MRSP Infrastructure Grant
Total Amount	Role
$114,455	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2012
GNo:G1101138

Assessment of rectal and urinary toxicity from the RADAR prostate radiotherapy trial – dosimetric constraints for novel symptom clustering, derivation of radiobiological parameters and assessment of$100,753

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Associate Professor Martin Ebert, Conjoint Professor Jim Denham, Professor David Joseph, Associate Professor Kerwyn Foo, Associate Professor Annette Haworth
Funding Body
NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$100,753	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2013
GNo:G1100992

Computational prediction and functional clarification of novel drug combination strategies for the treatment of brain tumours$50,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Mr Dan Johnstone, Doctor Regina Berretta, Doctor Luke Mathieson, Professor Manuel Graeber, Doctor Jennette Sakoff
Funding Body
Maitland Cancer Appeal Committee
Scheme
Research Project
Total Amount	Role
$50,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2011
GNo:G1100275

The Pierre and Marie Curie GPU computing servers$27,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Conjoint Associate Professor Peter Greer, Doctor Regina Berretta, Doctor Carlos Riveros
Funding Body
NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)
Scheme
Equipment Grant
Total Amount	Role
$27,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2011	2011
GNo:G1100032

2010 (4 grants)

Genetic associations of early retinal pathologic phenotypes: Data pooling and meta-analyses of multiple populations$182,438

Project Team
Associate Professor Jie Wang, Professor Eric Boerwinkle, Dr Gerald Liew, Professor Pablo Moscato, Dr Shyong Tai, Dr Alexander Hewitt, Professor John Attia, Associate Professor Yik Teo, Professor Ronald Klein, Doctor Patrick McElduff
Funding Body
NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$182,438	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2012
GNo:G1101153

HMRI MRSP Infrastructure Grant 09/10 - IBM$94,604

Project Team
Professor Rodney Scott, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
MRSP Infrastructure Grant
Total Amount	Role
$94,604	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2010
GNo:G1000560

Identification of novel biomarkers for pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease$24,998

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Doctor Liz Milward, Doctor Martin Ravetti, Mr Dan Johnstone, Dr M Guillemin, Doctor Regina Berretta
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$24,998	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2010
GNo:G0900149

Sir Ronald Fisher GPU computing cluster $22,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Doctor Regina Berretta
Funding Body
NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)
Scheme
Equipment Grant
Total Amount	Role
$22,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2010	2010
GNo:G1000054

2009 (4 grants)

Australian stroke genetics collaborative - Genome-wide association study in ischaemic stroke$1,108,000

Project Team
Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Conjoint Associate Professor Jonathan Sturm, Professor John Attia, Professor Rodney Scott, Doctor Lisa Lincz, Dr Simon Koblar, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$1,108,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2011
GNo:G0188856

An Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility for Applications in Proteomics and Organic Chemistry$495,000

Project Team
Laureate Professor John Aitken, Professor Adam McCluskey, Doctor Mark Baker, Doctor Nikki Verrills, Professor Marcel Maeder, Doctor Xiaojing Zhou, Professor Eileen McLaughlin, Associate Professor Brett Nixon, Doctor Shaun Roman, Conjoint Professor Ray Rose, Professor Hugh Dunstan, Professor Christopher Grof, Professor Roger Smith, Conjoint Professor Peter Gibson, Conjoint Professor Alison Jones, Professor Mike Calford, Conjoint Professor Keith Jones, Doctor Rick Thorne, Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley, Professor Paul Foster, Conjoint Professor Leonie Ashman, Professor Gordon Burns, Associate Professor Phillip Dickson, Professor John Rostas, Professor Rodney Scott, Associate Professor Paul Tooney, Professor Phil Hansbro, Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Paul Dastoor, Associate Professor Peter Lewis
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
Total Amount	Role
$495,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0189122

An Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility for Applications in Proteomics and Organic Chemistry$50,000

Project Team
Laureate Professor John Aitken, Professor Adam McCluskey, Doctor Mark Baker, Doctor Nikki Verrills, Professor Marcel Maeder, Doctor Xiaojing Zhou, Professor Eileen McLaughlin, Associate Professor Brett Nixon, Doctor Shaun Roman, Conjoint Professor Ray Rose, Professor Hugh Dunstan, Professor Christopher Grof, Professor Roger Smith, Conjoint Professor Peter Gibson, Conjoint Professor Alison Jones, Professor Mike Calford, Conjoint Professor Keith Jones, Doctor Rick Thorne, Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley, Professor Paul Foster, Conjoint Professor Leonie Ashman, Professor Gordon Burns, Associate Professor Phillip Dickson, Professor John Rostas, Professor Rodney Scott, Associate Professor Paul Tooney, Professor Phil Hansbro, Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Paul Dastoor, Associate Professor Peter Lewis
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner funding
Total Amount	Role
$50,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0189948

First Australian Workshop on Bioinformatics for Biomarker Discovery$25,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Special Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$25,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2009	2009
GNo:G0190622

2008 (2 grants)

Genes and environment in the risk of early age-related macular degeneration: a population-based case-control study$701,224

Project Team
Professor John Attia, Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
NHMRC (National Health & Medical Research Council)
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$701,224	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2008	2010
GNo:G0189168

ARC Centre of Excellence for Bioinformatics - UQ$247,313

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
ARC Centres of Excellence
Total Amount	Role
$247,313	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2008	2010
GNo:G0188370

2007 (4 grants)

HMRI Emerging Research program - Information based medicine$624,044

Project Team
Professor Rodney Scott, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
MRSP Infrastructure Grant
Total Amount	Role
$624,044	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2007	2009
GNo:G0187945

Application of novel exact combinatorial optimisation techniques and metaheuristic methods for problems in cancer research$238,291

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott, Dr Michael Langston
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$238,291	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2007	2009
GNo:G0186327

(8) PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)$21,532

Project Team
Professor Rodney Scott, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Publication Performance Grant
Total Amount	Role
$21,532	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2007	2007
GNo:G0187968

Healthy Airways and Obstructive Lung Disease (HAROLD)$20,000

Project Team
Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith, Doctor Lisa Wood, Professor John Attia, Doctor Regina Berretta, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
Project Grant
Total Amount	Role
$20,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2007	2007
GNo:G0187246

2006 (4 grants)

PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)$621,143

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott, Professor John Rostas, Professor John Forbes, Conjoint Professor Peter Hersey, Conjoint Professor Stephen Ackland, Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith, Emeritus Professor Peter Dunkley, Conjoint Professor Leonie Ashman, Professor John Attia, Associate Professor Phillip Dickson, Doctor Liz Milward, Professor Alistair Sim, Associate Professor Paul Tooney, Doctor Regina Berretta, Associate Professor David Sibbritt, Conjoint Professor Chris Levi, Professor Xu Zhang, Conjoint Associate Professor Patricia Crock, Conjoint Associate Professor Jeannette Lechner-Scott
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Priority Research Centre
Total Amount	Role
$621,143	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2006	2013
GNo:G0186919

Predispositions to Multiple Sclerosis in different populations$60,000

Funding Body
Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia
Scheme

Total Amount	Role
$60,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2006	2007
GNo:16684973

Application of novel parameterized complexity techniques to problems in functional genomics$19,946

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Near Miss Grant
Total Amount	Role
$19,946	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2006	2006
GNo:G0186046

Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms that are associated with an increased risk of colectoral cancer$9,050

Project Team
Professor Rodney Scott, Professor Robyn Ward, Assoc. Prof Nicholas Hawkins, Professor John Attia, Associate Professor David Sibbritt, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Near Miss Grant
Total Amount	Role
$9,050	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2006	2006
GNo:G0186073

2005 (4 grants)

Evolutionary algorithms for problems in functional genomics data analysis$218,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Rodney Scott, Doctor Regina Berretta
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$218,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2005	2007
GNo:G0184416

The Australian EEG Database - Infrastructure Support$20,000

Project Team
Emeritus Professor Patricia Michie, Conjoint Associate Professor Mick Hunter, Professor John Rostas, Conjoint Associate Professor David Williams, Professor Pablo Moscato, Associate Professor Frans Henskens
Funding Body
Hunter Medical Research Institute
Scheme
HMRI Brain and Mental Health Research Program
Total Amount	Role
$20,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2005	2005
GNo:G0185719

Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW'05)$3,000

Project Team
Doctor Regina Berretta, Doctor Michael Hannaford, Associate Professor Frans Henskens, Professor Pablo Moscato, Dr Richard Webber
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Conference Establishment Grant
Total Amount	Role
$3,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2005	2005
GNo:G0184971

The 6th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2005), 22-26 August 2005$2,500

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme
Travel Grant
Total Amount	Role
$2,500	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2005	2005
GNo:G0185581

2004 (2 grants)

Centre for Bioinformatics - UQ$390,000

Project Team
Professor Pablo Moscato, Professor Michael Fellows
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
ARC Centres of Excellence
Total Amount	Role
$390,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2004	2006
GNo:G0185393

Australian Bioinformatics Grid Network$10,000

Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
ARC Network
Total Amount	Role
$10,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2004	2004
GNo:16243477

2003 (3 grants)

Newcastle Bioinformatics Initiative$500,000

Funding Body
University of Newcastle
Scheme

Total Amount	Role
$500,000	Chief Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2003	2005
GNo:16243783

Approximate proximity for applications in data mining and visualization$46,000

Project Team
Professor Michael Fellows, Professor Pablo Moscato
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Scheme
Discovery Projects
Total Amount	Role
$46,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2003	2004
GNo:G0185110

Funding Body
Brazilean Government
Scheme
National Program in Biotechnology and Genetic Resources (Brazil)
Total Amount	Role
$1,430,000	Investigator
Funding Start	Funding Finish
2001	2003
GNo:16684946

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