Grants

Grant monies are in AUD$ for the year 2002, unless otherwise specified

$88,000 ($263,000 2002-2004)
Dr RT Baker (with Dr B Sarcevic, Garvan Institute, Sydney)
Association for International Cancer Research

$11,860
Wellcome Trust
Dr J Bekkers
Developing new methods for determining the influence of dendrites on neuronal output, Wellcome Trust Short-term Travel Grant, to enable sabbatical at University College London

$160,000
National Health and Medical Research Council
Prof P Board
The role of Zeta and Omega dams glutathione transferases in endobiotic and xenobiotic metabolism



$103,630
National Institutes of Health
Prof P Board, Prof MV Anders

$50,000
National Heart Foundation "Grant in Aid"
Dr MG Casarotto, AF Dulhunty and I Toth
Potential Inotropic Agents



$3,000
Biochemical Society (UK) Travel Bursary -
Dr M Casarotto

$150,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant
Drs G Chaudhri and G Karupiah
Pathophysiological Significance of Reverse signalling through membrane TNF



$22,099
National Health and Medical Research Council Equipment grant
Drs G Chaudri, G Karupiah, H Warren and Prof C Parish
Equipment for in situ hybridisation

$2,000,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant
Prof C Chesterman (UNSW), Dr R Andrews (Monash), Dr M Berndt (Monash), Prof B Chong (UNSW), Prof P Hogg (UNSW), Dr M Hulett, A/Prof L Khachigian (UNSW) and Prof C Parish.
Vascular Biology

$70,000
Australian Research Council
Dr JD Clements
Senior Research Fellowship



$60,100
Australian Research Council Large Grant
Dr JD Clements
Focal stimulation of single visualised synaptic terminals.

$375,000
Praxis Pharmaceuticals
Dr WB Cowden and B Charlton
Investigation of phosphosugars as anti-inflammatory drugs

$28,000
Wellcome Trust (Equipment Grant)
Prof AF Dulhunty, Prof P Board, Dr M Casarotto, Dr D Laver (BAMBI); Dr G Lamb, Dr Stephenson (La Trobe)
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer.



$53,166
Bilateral Science and Technology Program with the USA National Science Foundation
Prof AF Dulhunty and Prof E Gallant
Regulation of ryanodine receptor calcium release channels by Co-proteins.

$135,000
Prof PW Gage, Prof P Board
Factors affecting the conductance of GABA(A) channels (NHMRC)

 

$36,000
Prof PW Gage, A Hammarstrom
The persistent Na+ current during hypoxia: the influence of subunits, associated proteins
and drugs (NHF)

 

$795,798
US National Institutes of Health
Prof C Goodnow
Genes for tolerance and immunity consortium



$495,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Special Program in Diabetes
Prof C Goodnow
Molecular analysis of pathways in diabetes



$563,199
Wellcome Trust
Prof C Goodnow
Programme of ENU mutagenesis to identify the pathways governing lymphocyte responses to antigen



$234,327
US National Institutes of Health
Prof C Goodnow
Protein profiling arrays



$223,792
Johnson and Johnson
Prof C Goodnow
Face mutant

$35,000
APAC Centre of Expertise Program (2000-2003)
Dr JE Gready
Biomolecular simulation and bioinformatics.

$112,500
National Health and Medical Research Council
Dr A Hammarstrom, Prof PW Gage
Activation of persistent Na+ current during hypoxia: oxygen sensors, Na+ channel subunits
and drugs

$42,735
National Heart Foundation, Grant-in-Aid
Dr C Hill
Anatomical and functional variation in muscular arteries during the development of hypertension



$17,088
Wellcome Trust
To Dr C Hill
For Travel Funds

 

$165,000
Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship
Dr MD Hulett
Regulators of cell invasion and angiogenesis

 

$598,981
Wellcome Trust
Prof DA Jans (Principal Applicant); Prof C Parish/Drs DJ Tremethick/P Foster/M Crouch
Multi-Photon Upgrade for BioRAD radiance 2000 CLSM

 

$110,000
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
Dr G Karupiah
Immune response to viral infection



$105,000
National Health and Medical Research Council
Dr G Karupiah
Senior Research Fellowship



$75,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant
Drs G Karupiah and G Chaudhri
Control of influenza virus infection by gamma interferon induced mediators

 

$34,575
The Canberra Hospital Private Practice Fund
Drs A Kent, HS Warren and J Dahlstrom
Premature infant and Natural Killer cell activity

 

$192,610 (US$345,000 2000/2003)
Human Frontier Research Grant
Dr K Luger and Dr D Tremethick
The molecular function of an essential histone variant

 

$159,300
National. Multiple Sclerosis Society - USA
Drs S McColl, DO Willenborg and I Clark-Lewis
Chemokine receptors as potential therapeutic targets in Multiple Sclerosis

 

$115,682
National Health and Medical Research Council (2000-2002)
Prof AJ McLean and Dr PJ Harvey (Canberra Clinical School) and Dr JE Gready.
Assessment of hypoxia and hepatic metabolism in cirrhotic rats using NMR.

 

$55,817
National Health and Medical Research Council
Dr S Mahalingam
Peter Doherty Postdoctoral Fellow

 

$196,000
NSW Cancer Council
Prof C Parish, Dr J Altin (BaMBi), Dr P Hogg (UNSW) and Prof C Chesterman (UNSW)
Tumour angiogenesis



$50,000
Progen Industries Ltd
Prof C Parish and Prof M Banwell (Research School of Chemistry)
Development of novel heparinoid mimetics and investigation of the heparanase enzyme as a diagnostic and therapeutic target



$14,354
The Wellcome Trust Biomedical Research Collaboration Grant
Prof C Parish and Prof M Walport (Imperial College, London)
Tick-over activation of complement by the classical pathway

 

$310,000
Centre for HIV Virology
Prof IA Ramshaw
Novel approaches for HIV-1 vaccination



$376,000
National Institutes of Health
Prof IA Ramshaw and Dr S Thomson
HIV Vaccine and Design Development Program

 

$305,000
Pfizer Central
Dr P Sah
Properties of novel GABA receptors in the amygala

 

$150,000 ($450,000 2002-2004)
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant
Dr F Shannon and Dr A Holloway
A functional proteomics approach to the study of inducible gene transcription in a chromatin context.



$38,800
Diabetes Australia.
Dr F Shannon
Mechanisms of gene expression in response to T cell costimulation:targets for immune tolerance.



$57,400 ($634,000, 2001-2003)
Wellcome Trust
Dr F Shannon, Prof C Goodnow, Prof D Jans, Dr D Tremethick, Dr R Baker
An integrated microarray system for analysis of gene expression and mutation detection.

 

$129,981
National Health and Medical Research Council /JDFA/ JDFI
Diabetes Collaborative Research Grant
Dr CJ Simeonovic, Prof I Ramshaw, Dr W Cowden and Clin Assoc Prof. JD Wilson
Regulation of the immune response to allografts of adult pancreatic islets

 

$136,000 ($680,000 1998/2002)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation/ NHMRC/DA
Dr R Slattery



$220,666 ($662,000 2000/2003)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Dr R Slattery

 

$850,000
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr G J Stuart
Dendritic mechanisms modulating synaptic plasticity

 

$85,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant
Dr D Tremethick, Dr D Rangasamy
Mechanisms by which chromatic modulates gene expression

 

$57,884
Wellcome Trust
Dr CG Vinuesa
Genes, TI-2 antibody responses and autoimmunity

 

$135,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant (151304)
Dr HS Warren
Receptors and Ligands Regulating Human NK Cell Proliferation



$105,000
National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Research Fellowship (148950)
Dr HS Warren

 

$5,000
Asthma Foundation, NSW
Dr D Webb

 

$160,000
National Health and Medical Research Council
Dr DO Willenborg
The role of interferon-gamma and nitric oxide in the downregulation of central nervous system inflammation



$15,840
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)
Drs DO Willenborg and A Katsifis
Evaluation of radiolabelled peripheral benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) ligands in the animal model "experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis". Potential probes for the diagnosis of "Multiple Sclerosis"



$21,388
The Canberra Hospital Private Practice Fund
Drs D Willenborg, H Warren, M Cook and N Petrovsky
A multiscan plate reader