2015

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.

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.

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.

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.

Associate Professor Jodie Simpson has been awarded more than $698,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for her research project Galectin-3 and phagocyte function in severe asthma.

Professor Adam McCluskey has been awarded more than $1,193,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for his research project A new approach to treating intractable epilepsy.

Associate Professor Luke Wolfenden has been awarded more than $1,687,000 in NHMRC funding commencing in 2016. A Project Grant: A randomised controlled trial of a web-based, organisational systems change intervention to increase childcare service adherence to dietary guidelines and a Partnership Project: Web-based systems intervention to support implementation of dietary guidelines in childcare services.

Associate Professor Deborah Hodgson has been awarded more than $636,000 in NHMRC Project Grant funding commencing in 2016 for her research project Maternal immune activation and adolescent exposure to cannabis in rodents: Do two developmental "hits" lead to schizophrenia-like changes in brain and behaviour?

Dr Christopher Williams has been awarded more than $1,000,000 in NHMRC funding commencing in 2016. He has received an Early Career Fellowship and a Project Grant.

Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Information Technology have attracted over $2.3 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding, to commence in 2016.