November 2015

Dr Lei Jin has been awarded more than $401,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project Alpha-actinin-4 as an oncogenic driver and therapeutic target in melanoma.

Professor Roger Smith has been awarded more than $469,000 in NHMRC Development Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project Achieving Targeted Delivery of Drugs to Uterine Muscle in Women for the Prevention of Preterm Labour.

Conjoint Professor Jim Denham has been awarded more than $376,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project The role of adjuvant zoledronic acid in locally advanced prostate cancer.

Professor Clare Collins has been awarded more than $687,000 in NHMRC Research Fellowship funding commencing in 2016 for her research into personalised medical nutrition therapy to improve diet related health outcomes.

Professor John Wiggers has been awarded more than $766,000 in NHMRC funding commencing in 2016 for his research a practice change intervention to increase the provision of antenatal care addressing maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy: a stepped-wedge trial.

Professor Alan Brichta has been awarded more than $491,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project Mechanisms underlying efferent feedback in the vestibular system.

Dr Hock Tay has been awarded more than $314,000 in NHMRC Early Career Fellowships funding commencing in 2016 for his research in The role of long non-coding RNA in regulating lung immunity and inflammation.

Dr Neil Spratt has been awarded more than $875,000 in NHMRC funding commencing in 2016 to further his stroke research.

Associate Professor Brett Nixon has been awarded more than $1,033,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 to further his work addressing male infertility.

Professor Darryl Knight has been awarded more than $845,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project Fibroblast Senescence as a driver of pulmonary fibrosis.

Conjoint Professor Peter Wark has been awarded more than $609,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project How the placental protein Syncytin impairs maternal immune responses to influenza.

Conjoint Associate Professor Prudence Francis has been awarded more than $722,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for her research project SOFT and TEXT premenopausal randomised adjuvant endocrine breast cancer trials.