Research
NHMRC Success
NHMRC Funding Outcomes
University of Newcastle as lead institution
While the below funding outcomes list only the first-named Chief Investigator on a successful grant, the university also acknowledges the hard work of all members of the research teams who prepare, submit and participate in successful grant applications.
NHMRC Funding Commencing in 2023
APP ID | Chief Investigator | Scheme Name | Project Title | Recommended Budget |
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2020768 | Prof Chris Dayas | Ideas Grants | A new mechanism for targeting stress-related mental health disorders | $831,378 |
2020113 | A/Prof Brett Graham | Ideas Grants | Network level decoding of touch and pain in the spinal cord | $738,587 |
2020111 | Prof Hubert Hondermarck | Ideas Grants | Predict, prevent and treat bone metastases in prostate cancer | $599,657 |
2021587 | Dr Gerard Kaiko | Ideas Grants | Combining multi-omic causal-prediction networks from large patient datasets with a human intestinal organoid pipeline to identify new therapies for IBD | $984,565 |
2020762 | Dr Elizabeth Manning | Ideas Grants | Striatal population involvement in OCD symptom domains | $644,116 |
2020737 | Dr Jonathan Paul | Ideas Grants | Targeting Bromodomain and Extra-Terminal (BET) Proteins for Preventing Preterm Birth | $529,026 |
2019934 | Dr John Schjenken | Ideas Grants | Novel determinants of male fertility carried by seminal fluid extracellular vesicles | $899,842 |
2016283 | Dr Heather Lee | Investigator Grants | Detailing epigenetic mechanisms in cancer evolution for improved patient outcomes | $1,576,390 |
2016686 | Professor Xu Dong Zhang | Investigator Grants | Harnessing long noncoding RNAs for cancer diagnosis and treatment | $2,382,170 |
NHMRC Funding Commencing in 2022
APP ID | Chief Investigator | Scheme Name | Project Title | Recommended Budget |
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2013829 | Prof Michael Breakspear | Postgraduate Scholarship | Negative Symptoms of Psychosis | $93,904.17 |
2010866 | Prof David Lubans | Partnership Project | Optimising the implementation of an evidence-based school program to engage adolescents in muscle-strengthening activities consistent with national guidelines | $709,054.50 |
2010310 | A/Prof Christopher Grainge | Ideas Grant | Impaired mucociliary clearance drives Bronchiectasis progression | $909,817.40 |
2012273 | Prof Lee Smith | Ideas Grant | Adrenal-Targeted Nanobiotechnology: A Novel Therapy for Adrenal Disease | $733,194.50 |
2012583 | Dr Jonathan Paul | Ideas Grant | Targeted Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Preventing Preterm Birth | $732,334.40 |
2012600 | Dr Kristen Coupland | Ideas Grant | New pathways to improved stroke outcome: the importance of managing intracranial pressure | $497,265.58 |
2012718 | Dr Suzi Edwards | Ideas Grant | Effectiveness of empirically based tackle technique intervention to reduce the in-game risk of concussion | $1,026,166.20 |
2013580 | A/Prof Nikki Verrills | Ideas Grant | A dual approach to activate a tumour suppressor for breast cancer therapy | $597,824.10 |
2008612 | Prof Michael Breakspear | Investigator Grant | Generative models of brain disorders | $2,872,570 |
2009340 | Prof Clare Collins | Investigator Grant | Personalised Nutrition Support | $3,927,015 |
2008392 | Prof Brett Mitchell | Investigator Grant | Building evidence for strategies to prevent healthcare acquired infections | $1,570,120 |
NHMRC Funding Commencing in 2021
APP ID | Chief Investigator | Scheme Name | Project Title | Recommended Budget |
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1197022 | Prof Luke Wolfenden | Investigator Grant | Transforming approaches to chronic disease prevention in community settings | $2,776,555.10 |
1197131 | Prof Frances Kay-Lambkin | Investigator Grant | Transforming treatment for mental health and substance use disorders: Leveraging technology to bridge the evidence-practice gap | $2,119,844.08 |
1196514 | Dr Kelvin Kong | Investigator Grant | Improving Aboriginal Children's Access to Better Ear and Hearing Health through Telehealth ENT | $1,139,024.30 |
2007255 | Prof Chris Levi | MRFF - Cardiovascular Health Mission - Cardiovascular Health | Yarning up After Stroke | $485,061.66 |
2007317 | Prof Chris Levi | MRFF - Cardiovascular Health Mission - Cardiovascular Health | Stroke in patients with large Ischaemic Core: Assessment of Reperfusion therapy Impact on Outcome (SICARIO) | $1,515,113.87 |
2011006 | A/Prof Tracy Dudding-Byth | MRFF - EPCDRI - Neurofibromatosis | The Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) Cutaneous Neurofibroma Consortium: Identifying Genetic modifiers of disease burden to inform treatment pathways. | $1,607,737.60 |
2010271 | L/Prof Robert Sanson-Fisher | Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases | Developing and testing a community-informed intervention to increase VIA cervical cancer screening in Eswatini | $1,206,526.00 |
2009206 | A/Prof Gillian Gould | Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases | SISTAQUIT scale-up in Indigenous populations in Australia | $1,800,000.00 |
2002882 | Prof Michael Nilsson | Ideas Grants | Using a national level multi-registry analysis to determine whether prescribed anti-platelet therapies post-stroke can modify the risk of cognitive decline or dementia | $446,302.05 |
2001767 | Dr Michelle Bovill | Ideas Grants |
Yindymarra (to honour, respect) Aboriginal experiences in the conduct of health research: the development of practical recommendations to enhance the uptake of ethical research guidelines | $1,015,164.00 |
2002953 | Prof Peter Wark | Ideas Grants | ER stress-Unfolded Protein Response a critical metabolic pathway for airway remodelling in asthma | $789,474.50 |
2002141 | Prof Jon Hirst | Ideas Grants | Neonatal therapy for improving myelination and long term outcome following preterm birth | $799,883.00 |
2003933 | Prof Juanita Todd | Ideas Grants | Perceiving is believing: Perceptual inference anomalies in schizophrenia. | $344,823.00 |
2004514 | Prof Peter Gibson | Ideas Grants | Bushfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and epigenetic changes in offspring | $1,707,578.55 |
2004860 | Prof Simon Keely | Ideas Grants | Wheat proteins, the duodenal microbiome and immune activation in the aetiopathogenesis of non-coeliac gluten sensitivity and functional dyspepsia | $1,997,149.50 |
NHMRC Funding Commencing in 2020
APP ID | Chief Investigator | Scheme Name | Project Title | Recommended Budget |
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1193234 | Laureate Professor Robert Sanson-Fisher | Partnership Projects | The impact of individualised care plans for elderly patients discharged home from hospital after neck of femur fracture: A randomised controlled trial | $475,920.50 |
1198362 | Professor Vanessa McDonald | Centres of Research Excellence - Centres of Clinical Research Excellence (CRE) | Centre of Research Excellence in Asthma Treatable Traits (CREATT) | $2,500,000.00 |
1197131 | Professor Frances Kay-Lambkin | Investigator Grant | Transforming treatment for mental health and substance use disorders: Leveraging technology to bridge the evidence-practice gap | $2,090,576.00 |
1197022 | Associate Professor Luke Wolfenden | Investigator Grant | Transforming approaches to chronic disease prevention in community settings | $2,738,220.00 |
1196514 | Dr Kelvin Kong | Investigator Grant | Improving Aboriginal Children's Access to Better Ear and Hearing Health through Telehealth ENT | $1,123,450.00 |
1180782 | Doctor Heather Lee | Ideas Grant | Probing Epigenetic Clonal Evolution in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. | $546,800.00 |
1181024 | Doctor Tessa Lord | Ideas Grant | Investigating the role of hypoxic niche microenvironments and hypoxia-induced transcription factors in regulating spermatogonial stem cell function | $559,753.00 |
1181825 | Professor Hubert Hondermarck | Ideas Grant | The perineural niche to predict the development of bone metastases in prostate cancer | $372,612.00 |
1182153 | Doctor Daniel Beard | Ideas Grant | Shear-activated nanotherapeutics to selectively enhance collateral cerebral blood flow during ischaemic stroke | $462,635.00 |
1182379 | Associate Professor Susan Hua | Ideas Grant | Development of Improved Treatments for Oesophageal Diseases | $564,008.00 |
1182948 | Associate Professor Mark Baker | Ideas Grant | Heat-shock induced alternative splicing and its role in oligoasthenoteratozoospermia | $673,293.00 |
1184974 | Associate Professor Brett Graham | Ideas Grant | Projection neuron axon collaterals in the dorsal horn: the missing link in spinal pain processing? | $500,185.00 |
1188181 | Professor Alan Brichta | Ideas Grant | The Efferent Vestibular System as a new target to treat balance disorders and motion sickness | $637,703.00 |
1188400 | Doctor Nicole Verrills | Ideas Grant | Targeting DNA-PK in acute myeloid leukaemia | $741,610.00 |
1188493 | Professor Murray Cairns | Ideas Grant | Dysregulation of the RNA regulatory matrix in schizophrenia | $982,622.00 |
1186216 | Doctor Gerard Kaiko | Targeted Call for Research - Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkylated Substances (PFAS) | Using advanced technologies to investigate the impact of PFAS exposure on the human mucosal barrier and interaction with pre-existing medical conditions | $910,060.00 |
1189415 | Professor Brett Nixon | Targeted Call for Research - Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkylated Substances (PFAS) | Utilising male fertility as a biomarker of health to understand the biological effects of PFAS | $1,301,122.00 |
1178993 | Associate Professor Kym Rae | Targeted Call for Research into Nutrition in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People | Winanga-li: Indigenous worldview's incorporated into m-health approaches for Indigenous women and children | $1,127,874.50 |
1173252 | Laureate Professor Nick Talley | Investigator Grant | Immune-microbiota interactions in functional gastrointestinal disorders: understanding pathogenesis for improved diagnosis and targeted treatment. | $3,000,000 |
1173681 | Associate Professor Tracy Burrows | Investigator Grant | Better Treatments for addictive and compulsive overeating behaviours | $1,554,485 |
1173892 | Doctor Matt Dun | Investigator Grant | Mechanistic and translational studies to improve the outcomes of high-risk paediatric cancers | $627,250 |
1177087 | Doctor Lei Jin | Investigator Grant | Insight of the regulatory roles of pan-cancer deregulated lncRNAs in cancer cell adaptation to cellular stress | $1,399,339 |
1177226 | Doctor Christopher Williams | Investigator Grant | Advancing integration of care for musculoskeletal conditions and chronic disease risks | $1,515,540 |
APP ID | Chief Investigator | Scheme Name | Project Title | Recommended Budget |
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1156997 | Doctor Geoffry De Iuliis | Project Grant | Utilising the male germline to define our understanding of the biological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic energy | $425,394 |
1156898 | Doctor Malcolm Starkey | Project Grant | Understanding how group 2 innate lymphoid cells in early-life regulate postnatal lung development and susceptibility to chronic respiratory diseases | $501,022 |
1156589 | Conjoint Professor Peter Wark | Project Grant | Development of new therapies for COPD | $886,503.60 |
1158344 | Professor Lee Smith | Project Grant | The Importance of Classical Versus Backdoor Androgen Production Pathways in Masculinisation, Fertility and Lifelong Male Health | $507,127 |
1159616 | Doctor Yogavijayan Kandasamy | Project Grant | The Relationship between Maternal Health and Infant Renal Development and Function | $1,552,841.60 |
1160245 | Professor Billie Bonevski | Project Grant | A trial of vaporised nicotine products for smoking cessation following discharge from drug and alcohol residential withdrawal services | $1,833,513.20 |
1161957 | Associate Professor Kirsty Pringle | Project Grant | Factors regulating maternal levels of soluble (pro)renin receptor and its role in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia | $578,527.80 |
1161981 | Professor Jon Hirst | Project Grant | Replacement therapies for improving outcome following preterm birth | $892,047 |
1162515 | Professor Adam McCluskey | Project Grant | Dynamin modulators for reversing immunotherapy resistance in head and neck cancer | $1,493,752 |
1162684 | Doctor Jonathan Paul | Project Grant | Uterine-Targeted Delivery of Dual Action Therapy for Preventing Preterm Birth | $461,472.80 |
1162753 | Professor Xu Dong Zhang | Project Grant | Role of lncRNA glycoLINC in coordinating the Warburg effect and serine metabolism | $702,521 |
1163319 | Professor Brett Nixon | Project Grant | Targeted disruption of lipoxygenase enzymes to prevent oxidative stress-mediated pathologies in the male germline | $572,393.60 |
1165487 | Laureate Professor Paul Foster | Project Grant | Modelling the role of innate immune cells in exacerbation of asthma | $1,266,560 |
1165679 | Professor Chris Dayas | Project Grant | A novel pathways linking stress with mood disorders | $751,653 |
1159094 | Associate Professor Pradeep Tanwar | Career Development Fellowships | Translational Research Program in Gynaecological Cancers | $483,404 |
1162666 | Doctor Gerard Kaiko | Career Development Fellowships | Investigation of the role of novel cell types and metabolites in the pathogenesis of asthma | $437,036 |
1153479 | Associate Professor Luke Wolfenden | Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) - Centres of Population Health Research Excellence | NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Implementation for Community Chronic Disease Prevention. | $2,497,647.70 |
1170893 | Laureate Professor Nick Talley | Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) - Centres of Clinical Research Excellence | Centre for Research Excellence in Digestive Health | $2,484,034 |
1158670 | Doctor Michelle Bovill | Early Career Fellowships | Non-pharmacological strategies for smoking cessation during pregnancy with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women | $338,192 |
1160419 | Doctor Rebecca Hodder | Early Career Fellowships | Improving the translation of school-based interventions targeting health risk behaviours for chronic disease | $327,192 |
1159582 | Dr Caitlin Gillis | Early Career Fellowships | Apoptotic cell clearance: from basic biology to new therapeutic strategies for chronic respiratory disease | $417,192 |
1169324 | Professor Christine Paul | Partnership Projects | Improving outcomes for cancer patients who smoke: The Care to Quit stepped wedge randomised trial to implement best-practice cessation care in cancer centres | $1,408,506.30 |
1169822 | Doctor Steve Smith | Partnership Projects | Testing the impact of an Interactive Health Communication Application on days alive out of hospital and quality of life following surgery for colorectal cancer | $298,835.44 |
1170042 | Doctor Serene Yoong | Partnership Projects | A randomised trial of a multi-component implementation intervention to support childcare services with scheduling opportunities for outdoor free play consistent with sector guidelines | $941,274.50 |
1170181 | Professor Frances Kay-Lambkin | Partnership Projects | The eCliPSE Project: implementing evidence-based eHealth interventions for comorbid mental health and alcohol/other drug use problems into health and community settings | $196,973.70 |
1155810 | Conjoint Professor Peter Gibson | Practitioner Fellowships | Targeted treatment to reduce asthma prevalence and the impact of severe asthma | $585,270 |
1154503 | Professor Geoff Isbister | Research Fellowship | Improving Health Outcomes for Envenoming and Poisoning: Studies of Risk Assessment and Interventions | $792,275 |
1154507 | Professor David Lubans | Research Fellowship | Optimising the adoption and implementation of evidence-based physical activity interventions in schools | $724,175 |
1154837 | Professor Brett Nixon | Research Fellowship | Mechanistic and translational studies in male reproductive health | $649,175 |
1170385 | Laureate Professor Robert Sanson-Fisher | Targeted Call for Research into Healthy Ageing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples | Improving implementation of Health Assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients in mainstream general practice: a cluster randomised controlled trial | $745,056.50 |
APP ID | Chief Investigator | Scheme Name | Project Title | Recommended Budget |
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1137995 | Prof Philip Hansbro | Project Grant | Elucidating the role and potential for therapeutic targeting of TLR7 in emphysema and COPD | $925,780 |
1138004 | Prof Philip Hansbro | Project Grant | Defining the roles and targeting interferon-epsilon as a new therapy for influenza in asthma and COPD | $905,904 |
1138402 | Dr Chantal Donovan | Project Grant | Targeting remodelling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic asthma and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis(IPF) | $386,634 |
1139125 | Prof Amanda Baker | Project Grant | Quitlink: Accessible smoking cessation support for people living with severe and enduring mental illness | $1,141,189 |
1142861 | A/Prof Rohan Walker | Project Grant | Microglial paralysis in post-stroke neurodegeneration: help or hindrance? | $512,351 |
1142862 | A/Prof Rohan Walker | Project Grant | Stroke induced disturbances in glymphatic clearance: implications for brain repair? | $491,688 |
1143614 | Dr Heather Lee | Project Grant | Targeting cancer-initiating cells with DNA methyltransferase inhibitors: single-cell analysis to decipher molecular mechanisms and improve efficacy. | $175,000 |
1144638 | A/Prof Brett Graham | Project Grant | Excitatory interneurons: a sensory amplifier for pathological pain | $649,848 |
1145332 | A/Prof Christopher Grainge | Project Grant | How does bronchoconstriction worsen asthma? | $1,064,747 |
1145998 | Dr Kirsty Pringle | Project Grant | Maternal Recognition of Fetal Sex in the Regulation of Labour | $455,821 |
1146524 | Dr Gerard Kaiko | Project Grant | Functional characterisation of novel metabolites in asthma and identification of new biomarkers | $818,464 |
1147207 | A/Prof Christopher Dayas | Project Grant | Cognitive inflexibility and the development of pathological habits in brain diseases | $871,742 |
1147271 | Prof Xu Dong Zhang | Project Grant | Role of lncRNA IDH1-AS1 in regulating c-Myc driven-glycolysis and tumorigenesis | $675,585 |
1147533 | A/Prof Joerg Lehmann | Project Grant | First ever system to continuously and directly measure the internal anatomy to guide breast cancer radiation treatment under deep inspiration breath hold | $404,109 |
1147644 | A/Prof Murray Cairns | Project Grant | Complete genomics for mechanistic insight and precision treatments of schizophrenia | $1,133,341 |
1147894 | A/Prof Murray Cairns | Project Grant | Network biomarkers of traumatic stress resilience and sensitivity | $638,407 |
1147932 | Prof Brett Nixon | Project Grant | Elucidating the role of epididymosomes in the transfer of fertility-modulating proteins and regulatory classes of RNA to maturing spermatozoa | $531,978 |
1150165 | A/Prof Gillian Gould | Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship | Translating evidence based smoking cessation care for pregnant Indigenous smokers | $179,118 |
1150661 | Mrs Rachel Sutherland | Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship | A randomised trial of an intervention to facilitate the implementation of evidence based secondary school physical activity practices. | $179,118 |
1150476 | Dr Melaine Kingsland | Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship | Improving the implementation of screening, brief advice and referral for alcohol use by pregnant women attending public antenatal clinics | $179,118 |
1141606 | A/Prof Mitch Duncan | Career Development Fellowship | Enhancing understanding of the combined influence of physical activity and sleep as CVD risk factors | $476,728 |
1135901 | Prof Amanda Baker | Research Fellowship | ‘Equally Well’: Addressing Comorbid Physical, Mental, and Substance Use Disorders with Psychological Interventions | $715,210 |
1136064 | Prof Chris Levi | Practitioner Fellowship | Discovery to therapy implementation in acute stroke | $577,189 |
1150636 | Dr Michael Potter | Postgraduate Scholarship | The role of wheat proteins in dyspepsia | $87,956 |
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.