Successful NHMRC Projects 2007
Listed below are the details of successful NHMRC commencing in 2007. If you have any queries please contact the Research Office on 02 9351 4469 or by e-mail:
| ID | CIA Title | CIA 1st Name | CIA Surname | College | Faculty | School/Department | Project Title (Scientific Title) | $2007 Received | $2008 Received | $2009 Received | $2010 Received | $2011 Received | $ Total Received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 457342 | Professor | Greg | Murray | Health Sciences | Dentistry | Westmead Centre for Oral Health | An fMRI analysis of the functional organization within the brain of experimental superficial and deep orofacial pain | $103,750 | $103,750 | $88,750 | $296,250 | ||
| 457006 | Associate Professor | Rob | Herbert | Health Sciences | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | Estimation of transient increases in bleeding risk associated with physical activity in children with haemophilia | $27,700 | $37,700 | $32,700 | $98,100 | ||
| 457003 | Dr | Mairwen | Jones | Health Sciences | Health Sciences | Behavioural and Community Health Sciences | Danger Ideation Reduction Therapy For Obsessive-Compulsive Checkers: A Randomised Controlled Trial | $55,150 | $45,150 | $50,150 | $150,450 | ||
| 457594 | Dr | Jane | Latimer | Health Sciences | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | Which exercise for chronic low back pain? | $193,600 | $198,600 | $120,125 | $512,325 | ||
| 457464 | Dr | Catherine | Sherrington | Health Sciences | Health Sciences | School of Physiotherapy | Minimising disability and falls in older people through a post-hospital individualised exercise program. | $196,375 | $191,375 | $129,125 | $516,875 | ||
| 455270 | Professor | Johanna | Westbrook | Health Sciences | Health Sciences | School of Health Information Management | The impact of electronic medication administration records (e-MAR) on medication administration safety and nurses' work | $271,000 | $251,000 | $156,476 | $678,476 | ||
| 457356 | Dr | Allison | Abendroth | Health Sciences | Medicine | Infectious Disease & Immunology | Mechanisms of immune modulation by Varicella zoster virus during cutaneous infections | $170,500 | $170,500 | $170,500 | $511,500 | ||
| 464857 | Dr | Charles | Allan | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Hormonal control of Serotli cell maturation and function | $166,000 | $166,000 | $161,000 | $493,000 | ||
| 457573 | Dr | Terence | Amis | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Hydrostatic pressure distributions in peri-pharyngeal tissues : impact on upper airway patency | $159,625 | $164,625 | $164,625 | $488,875 | ||
| 464850 | Professor | Bruce | Armstrong | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | Sun exposure, vitamin D and the outcome of prostate cancer | $243,025 | $39,863 | $185,125 | $468,013 | ||
| 464895 | Professor | Bruce | Armstrong | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | A polypill to prevent genome damage | $213,163 | $182,500 | $395,663 | |||
| 457556 | Dr | Elena | Bagley | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Stimulus induced synaptic plasticity in the amygdala | $136,705 | $136,705 | $136,705 | $410,115 | ||
| 457072 | Professor | Rob | Baxter | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Proteomic screening for apoptotic markers in breast cancer | $170,500 | $170,500 | $170,500 | $511,500 | ||
| 457043 | Dr | Patrick | Bertolino | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Understanding rapid T-cell clearance by the liver: a critical step towards improved liver transplantation. | $132,188 | $132,188 | $132,188 | $396,564 | ||
| 457422 | Dr | G. Alex | Bishop | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Role of tryptophan metabolism in liver transplant tolerance and rejection |
$128,625 | $128,625 | $128,625 | $385,875 | ||
| 457387 | Dr | Stacy | Carter | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | How do lay people understand the risk of developing cancer? A qualitative study using grounded theory procedures. | $81,750 | $98,875 | $90,500 | $271,125 | ||
| 464859 | Associate Professor | Tailoi | Chan-Ling | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of human choroidal and retinal vascularisation | $92,250 | $92,250 | $92,250 | $276,750 | ||
| 457238 | Professor | John | Christodoulou | Health Sciences | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead | Functional Significance of MeCP2 Target Genes in the Pathogenesis of Rett Syndrome. | $152,750 | $152,750 | $152,750 | $458,250 | ||
| 457557 | Professor | Peter | Cistulli | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | A Randomised Controlled Trial of CPAP versus Oral Appliance in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea | $136,875 | $131,875 | $131,875 | $400,625 | ||
| 457315 | Dr | Russell | Diefenbach | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Assembly and egress of herpes simplex virus | $92,250 | $92,250 | $92,250 | $276,750 | ||
| 457525 | Professor | Bogdan | Dreher | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Integration of information by cells in mammalian visual cortices: role of feedforward and feedback inputs. | $85,750 | $100,750 | $95,750 | $282,250 | ||
| 464820 | Dr | Kim | Felmingham | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Neural changes associated with symptom improvement in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder following exposure treatment | $71,750 | $71,750 | $71,750 | $215,250 | ||
| 464842 | Dr | Michelle | Gerke | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Targeted ablation of sensory neurons and glial cells with a view to relieving neuropathic pain | $96,750 | $86,750 | $86,750 | $270,250 | ||
| 457472 | Professor | Gwendolyn | Gilbert | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | Optimisation of Salmonella genotyping and epidemiological data analysis for detection and investigation of outbreaks | $162,750 | $162,750 | $162,750 | $488,250 | ||
| 464887 | Associate Professor | Grantley | Gill | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | SNAC1: A randomised trial of sentinel node based management versus axillary clearance for women with small breast cancers | $235,613 | $235,613 | ||||
| 457068 | Dr | Ann | Goodchild | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | G-alpha proteins and their effectors (AC, PLC, rho and ERK) in central cardiovascular regulation in health and disease | $203,750 | $203,750 | $203,750 | $611,250 | ||
| 464893 | Professor | Georges | Grau | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Relationship between cell-cell interactions and disease severity in patients with cerebral malaria | $174,500 | $174,500 | $174,500 | $523,500 | ||
| 457355 | Professor | Ron | Grunstein | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Increasing adherence to obstructive sleep apnea treatments with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention | $106,250 | $101,250 | $72,875 | $280,375 | ||
| 457405 | Professor | Gary | Halliday | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Effect of ultraviolet radiation on development of effector and memory T cells to melanoma | $159,500 | $159,500 | $159,500 | $478,500 | ||
| 457408 | Professor | David | Harris | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Treatment of Diverse Renal Diseases with Regulatory Cells | $181,500 | $181,500 | $181,500 | $544,500 | ||
| 457490 | Dr | Kevin | Keay | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Supraspinal Neural Adaptations in the Transition from Acute Injury to Chronic Pain and Disability | $137,750 | $137,750 | $137,750 | $413,250 | ||
| 464898 | Professor | Tony | Keech | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | Biomarkers and genetic determinants of cardiovascular risk in diabetes: the FIELD Study | $296,263 | $281,263 | $317,275 | $894,801 | ||
| 464863 | Dr | Andrew | Kemp | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Predictors of Response to Antidepressants: Utility of Behavioural, Neuroimaging and Genetics Data | $102,700 | $102,700 | $92,700 | $298,100 | ||
| 457439 | Associate Professor | Ian | Kerridge | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Difficult decisions: a critical analysis of consent to high-risk medical procedures | $100,000 | $107,375 | $102,375 | $309,750 | ||
| 457497 | Associate Professor | Ian | Kerridge | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Deconstructing DTCA: Towards a differentiated policy response to Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Australia. | $87,250 | $98,313 | $185,563 | |||
| 457346 | Dr | Greg | King | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Does the pattern of ventilation distribution predict airway hyperresponsiveness? | $82,250 | $82,250 | $82,250 | $246,750 | ||
| 464828 | Professor | Nick | King | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | The Blood-Retinal Barrier - Modelling Mechanisms for Maintenance, Breakdown and Repair | $126,275 | $126,275 | $126,275 | $378,825 | ||
| 457424 | Dr | Michael | Kohn | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Randomised Controlled Trial Investigation of a Non-stimulant in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | $188,875 | $188,875 | $188,875 | $566,625 | ||
| 464834 | Professor | David | Le Couteur | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Caloric restriction, ageing and the liver sinusoidal endothelium: mechanisms and implications | $127,125 | $127,125 | $98,750 | $353,000 | ||
| 457515 | Associate Professor | Michael | Levy | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | Investigating the association between incarceration while pregnant and maternal and infant outcomes | $174,500 | $124,500 | $299,000 | |||
| 457343 | Professor | Richard | Lindley | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | The Third International Stroke Trial (IST-3) | $70,000 | $70,000 | $70,000 | $210,000 | ||
| 457245 | Associate Professor | David | Little | Health Sciences | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead | The role of muscle cells in bone repair | $149,450 | $149,450 | $298,900 | |||
| 457336 | Dr | Frank | Lovicu | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Regulation of lens cell behaviour by RTK antagonists, Sef and Sprouty. | $102,250 | $102,250 | $102,250 | $306,750 | ||
| 457385 | Associate Professor | Guy | Marks | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Burden of obstructive lung disease in Australia | $371,788 | $197,188 | $168,813 | $737,789 | ||
| 457381 | Dr | Kirsten | McCaffery | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | A randomised controlled trial of a bowel cancer screening decision aid for adults with low education and literacy | $77,250 | $152,250 | $229,500 | |||
| 457572 | Associate Professor | Peter | Middleton | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Determining the cellular mechanisms involved in the airway response to topical citrate | $139,000 | $144,000 | $144,000 | $427,000 | ||
| 457349 | Professor | Paul | Mitchell | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Blue Mountains Cohort Study: Long-term (15-year) incidence of eye disease, hearing loss and other public health outcomes | $282,213 | $342,250 | $223,188 | $847,651 | ||
| 457351 | Professor | Paul | Mitchell | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Measurement and prognostic significance of retinal vessel parameters in childhood | $70,213 | $104,200 | $79,300 | $253,713 | ||
| 457534 | Dr | Martin | Ng | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | The Role of Androgens in Angiogenesis and Endothelial Progenitor Cell Mobilisation | $87,250 | $87,250 | $87,250 | $261,750 | ||
| 465091 | Associate Professor | Michael | Nicholas | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Controlled clinical trial of desensitization to chronic pain | $105,625 | $118,063 | $118,063 | $341,751 | ||
| 464815 | Dr | Brian | Oliver | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Repetitive viral infection accentuates airway wall remodelling | $86,750 | $86,750 | $86,750 | $260,250 | ||
| 457069 | Professor | Paul | Pilowsky | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Neurons and Neurotransmitters that Control Phasic Laryngeal Motoneuron Activity | $89,250 | $89,250 | $89,250 | $267,750 | ||
| 457561 | Professor | Carol | Pollock | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | The role of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma in sodium transport in human proximal tubule cells | $181,500 | $181,500 | $181,500 | $544,500 | ||
| 465095 | Professor | Carol | Pollock | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Initiating Dialysis Early and Late Trial | $202,230 | $197,230 | $262,593 | $662,053 | ||
| 457575 | Dr | Gopala | Rangan | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Cyclin Dependent Kinases As Drug-Targets To Reduce Renal Cyst Formation and Scarring in Polycystic Kidney Disease | $102,250 | $102,250 | $102,250 | $306,750 | ||
| 457310 | Professor | Des | Richardson | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Examination of the Molecular Pharmacology of Anthracyclines Induced via their Interaction with Iron | $193,250 | $198,250 | $203,250 | $594,750 | ||
| 457302 | Dr | Christine | Roberts | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | Does place of birth influence a healthy start to life? | $119,875 | $73,750 | $136,000 | $329,625 | ||
| 457337 | Dr | Samuel | Solomon | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Neural mechanisms that limit the visual sensitivity of primates | $140,404 | $112,250 | $112,250 | $364,904 | ||
| 457235 | Professor | Stephen | Touyz | Health Sciences | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead | Does inpatient weight restoration prior to outpatient family therapy improve outcomes in adolescent anorexia nervosa? | $139,500 | $196,750 | $129,500 | $62,250 | $528,000 | |
| 457373 | Associate Professor | Stephen | Twigg | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Novel regulators of fat cell differentiation | $142,750 | $142,750 | $142,750 | $428,250 | ||
| 457467 | Associate Professor | Robert | Vandenberg | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Medical Sciences | Molecular Dynamics of Glutamate Transporters | $170,500 | $170,500 | $133,625 | $474,625 | ||
| 457386 | Dr | Janette | Vardy | Health Sciences | Medicine | Medical Psychology Unit | Cognitive Function and Fatigue in Cancer Patients After Chemotherapy | $84,625 | $84,625 | $68,275 | $237,525 | ||
| 457563 | Dr | Chris | Vaughan | Health Sciences | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Mechanisms of endogenous cannabinoid mediated analgesia within the midbrain | $178,500 | $160,500 | $160,500 | $499,500 | ||
| 457345 | Dr | Yiping | Wang | Health Sciences | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Kidney injury as a determinant of macrophage phenotype and efficacy for treating chronic kidney disease (CKD) | $175,000 | $175,000 | $175,000 | $525,000 | ||
| 457047 | Dr | Nicholas | West | Health Sciences | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Genome wide investigations of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to reveal processes of pathogenesis | $127,125 | $127,125 | $127,125 | $381,375 | ||
| 457459 | Dr | Anna | Williamson | Health Sciences | Medicine | School of Public Health | Determining the clinical validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) amongst urban Aboriginal children | $142,875 | $126,750 | $106,750 | $376,375 | ||
| 457457 | Dr | J. Margaret | Hughes | Health Sciences | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Airway smooth muscle control of mast cells in asthma | $196,000 | $196,000 | $196,000 | $588,000 | ||
| 457376 | Professor | Michael | Murray | Health Sciences | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Functional interplay of transcriptional activators in the regulation of the cytoprotective human CYP2J2 gene | $154,000 | $154,000 | $154,000 | $462,000 | ||
| 457391 | Dr | Melissa | Brown | Science and Technology | Science | Biological Sciences | Efflux mediated multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus | $196,000 | $196,000 | $196,000 | $588,000 | ||
| 457316 | Professor | Phyllis | Butow | Science and Technology | Science | Psychology | Psychosocial predictors of developing breast cancer in women from high risk breast cancer families | $257,500 | $257,500 | $252,500 | $161,700 | $125,450 | $1,054,650 |
| 457432 | Professor | Phyllis | Butow | Science and Technology | Science | Psychology | Psychological morbidity, unmet needs and patterns of care in culturally and linguistically diverse cancer patients in Australia | $203,878 | $198,878 | $402,756 | |||
| 457332 | Professor | Merlin | Crossley | Science and Technology | Science | Molecular and Microbial Biosciences | The regulation of gene expression during adipogenesis | $176,000 | $176,000 | $176,000 | $528,000 | ||
| 457511 | Professor | Ian | Curthoys | Science and Technology | Science | Psychology | The neural basis of clinical vestibular testing by bone conducted sound | $83,750 | $83,750 | $83,750 | $251,250 | ||
| 457454 | Dr | Neville | Firth | Science and Technology | Science | Biological Sciences | Molecular mechanisms of plasmid maintenance in multiply-resistant staphylococci | $181,000 | $171,000 | $171,000 | $523,000 | ||
| 457522 | Professor | Steven | Simpson | Science and Technology | Science | Biological Sciences | Testing the protein leverage hypothesis in humans | $266,000 | $266,000 | $246,000 | $778,000 | ||
| 457419 | Professor | Stephen | Touyz | Science and Technology | Science | Psychology | A randomised control trial of non-specific clinical management versus CBT in chronic anorexia nervosa | $231,250 | $207,063 | $67,250 | $505,563 |