The University of Sydney Bridging Support Grants 2009
Listed below are the details of successful University of Sydney Bridging Support Grants for 2009. If you have any queries please contact the research Office on 02 8627 8111 or by e-mail:
| CI Name | Faculty | School/Dept | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Mark Adams | Agriculture | Sciences | Carbon in high country ecosystems | $15,000.00 |
| A/Prof Mary Roberts | Arts | Letters: Art History & Theory | Peripheral Horizons: Reinterpreting Orientalist visual culture through a comparative study of women's Orientalism in Australia, the USA and Europe, 1855-1914. | $40,000.00 |
| Prof Timothy Fitzpatrick | Arts | Letters: Performance Studies | Rehearsal in Europe until the advent of the director | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Alastair Blanshard | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | Classical monsters in the Western imagination | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Andrew Hartwig | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | Plato Comicus and Greek comedy: a study of his dramatic career | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Julia Horne | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | Australia's Universities, Nation-Building and Social Access, 1942-2007 | $15,000.00 |
| Ms Frances Muecke | Arts | Philosophical & Hist Inq: Ancient History | The Invention of Rome: Flavio Biondo's Roma triumphans and its Legacy | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Jadran Mimica | Arts | Political & Soc Sciences: Anthropology | Creativity and Erosion in Language and Mythic Thought: A Study of Verbal Art and Cosmological Change in Papua New Guinea | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Benjamin Goldsmith | Arts | Political & Soc Sciences: Government & International Relations | Quantitative Conflict Analysis: Machine Learning and Econometrics | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Timothy Winter | Arts | Political & Soc Sciences: Sociology & Social Policy | The role of cultural heritage in conflict transformation societies | $40,000.00 |
| Prof Mehmet Darendeliler | Dentistry | Dentistry | Modelling and Prediction of Orthodontic Root Resorption | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Neil Hunter | Dentistry | Dentistry | Regulation of the permeability of oral epithelia by CD24 | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Neil Hunter | Dentistry | Dentistry | Binding of blood group antigens mediated by the Lys-gingipain of porphyromonas gingivalis | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Nicolas de Roos | Economics and Business | Economics | The Determinants of Petrol Prices in Australia | $15,000.00 |
| Dr John Shields | Economics and Business | Work & Organisational Studies | Taking the measure of pay: a multi-country, multi-level quantative study | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Ahmad Jabbarzadeh-Khoei | Engineering | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | Lubrication at the atomic scale | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Qing Li | Engineering | Aerospace Mech & M'tronic Eng | CFD Driven Topological Design for Coronary Stents | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Hans Coster | Engineering | Chemical & Biomolecular Eng | Robust and sensitive Bio-FET sensors utilising organic-effect nanostructures covalently bound to silicon | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Andrew Harris | Engineering | Chemical & Biomolecular Eng | Carbon nanotube functionalisation | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Marjorie Valix | Engineering | Chemical & Biomolecular Eng | Bioleaching e-wastes to recover resources | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Giang Nguyen | Engineering | Civil Engineering | A non-local approach to the modelling of rock fracture | $20,000.00 |
| Mr Zhendong Zhou | Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Cooperative Relay Broadcast Techniques and Their Applications in Wireless Broadband Communications | $20,000.00 |
| Prof Jon Patrick | Engineering | Schl Information Technologies | Semantic Concept Identification for Information Extraction in Clinical Reports | $15,000.00 |
| Prof Albert Zomaya | Engineering | Schl Information Technologies | Parallel Algorithms for mobility management | $15,000.00 |
| Ms Lindy Clemson | Health Sciences | Occupation & Leisure Sciences | Pre-discharge home visits are superior to hospital consultations for at-risk older people: The HOME trial | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Sharon Kilbreath | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | Clinical correlates of lymphoedema | $50,000.00 |
| A/Prof Michelle Lincoln | Health Sciences | Speech Pathology | Mouth asymettry in adults and children who do and do not stutter | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Fleur Johns | Law | Law | Power, Rule and Consensus in the Mekong River Basin: The Dynamics of 'Hard' and 'Soft' Law in Transboundary Water Governance | $20,000.00 |
| Ms Rosemary Lyster | Law | Law | Developing a legal Framework in Indonesia's participation in an internationally sanctioned scheme for reducing Emissions from Deforestation (and Degradation) | $50,000.00 |
| A/Prof Gregory Tolhurst | Law | Law | Modernising and Codifying Australian Sale of Goods Law | $20,000.00 |
| Mr Adam Guastella | Medicine | Brain & Mind Research Institut | The effect of Oxytocin on the processing of positive and threatening social cues | $20,000.00 |
| Prof Michael Davies | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Mechanisms and control of iron accumulation in atherosclerotic lesions | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Gary Halliday | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Loss of Brm and Brg-1 are key events in human skin carcinogenesis | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Simon Hawke | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Targeting prion protein with monoclonal antibodies and lentivirus delivered shRNA as treatment for prion diseases | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Susan Hayes | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Continuation study of intellectual disability in courts and police cells | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Alison Heather | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Development of a new highly sensitive and robust yeast androgen bioassay for the detection of designer androgens | $15,000.00 |
| Mr Christopher Jolly | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Understanding AID-induced cancer: Unravelling complex mutation and repair pathways | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Kenneth Rodgers | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Stabilising atherosclerotic plaques using HDL apopliproteins | $50,000.00 |
| Associate Prof John Sullivan | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Studies of natural anti-influenza immunity and blood donors who possess Neutralizing Avian H5N1 Antibodies | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Robert Booy | Medicine | Children's Hospital Westmead: Paediatrics & Child Health | Simple, observer-blinded randomised trial to prevent proven influenza in young children | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Megan Fabbro | Medicine | Children's Medical Research Institute | Understanding the molecular requirements of the endocytic machinery for mammalian cytokinesis | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Weiyong Shen | Medicine | Clinical Opthalmology | Regulation of bone marrow progenitor cells for treatment of diabetic retinopathy | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Stephen Clarke | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Individualised treatment for cancer patients: Impact of tumour-derived cytokines on drug clearance pathways in cancer | $50,000.00 |
| CI Name | Faculty | School/Dept | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Kirsty Walters | Medicine | Concord Clinical School | Androgen mechanisms in female reproduction | $50,000.00 |
| Mr Luke Henderson | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Anatomy & Histology | Brain Circuitry Underlying Endogenous Pain Modulation in Humans | $50,000.00 |
| Mr Adam Guastella | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Brain & Mind Research Institut | D-Cycloserine Augmentation of Psychological Treatments for young Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Janette Burgess | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Pharmacology | Interaction of CTFG and VEGF: a co-partner binding model regulating blood vessel formation | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Rachel Codd | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Pharmacology | A Trilateral Approach in Chemical Biology to Isolate Siderophores with Potential Antitumour Properties | $15,000.00 |
| Prof Christopher Liddle | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Pharmacology | Role of steroidogenic factor-1 and endogenous steriodgenesis in the function of the hepatic stellate cell | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Catherine Leamey | Medicine | Medical Sciences: Physiology | The role Ten_m3 in patterning ipsilateral retinal projections | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Charlotte Rees | Medicine | Medicine Faculty Office | Learning to learn together: Patient-student-tutor interaction during medical workplace learning encounters | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Kerrie McDonald | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | The role of IQGAP1 in actively migrating glioma cells and its regulation by MiR-124 | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Philip Sambrook | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of biophosphnate therapy in osteonecrosis of the hip. | $50,000.00 |
| Ms Meilang Xue | Medicine | Northern Clinical School | Activated Protein C suppresses the abnormal immune response in rheumatoid arthritis | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Robert Baxter | Medicine | Northern Clinical School: Kolling Institute of Medical Research | Protein discovery for breast cancer diagnosis | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Christopher Maher | Medicine | The George Institute for International Health | Diagnosis of the disc as a source of low back pain | $50,000.00 |
| Ms Julianne Djordjevic | Medicine | Western Clinical School | The fungal phospholipase B pathway and virulence | $50,000.00 |
| Prof David Harris | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Preventing kidney fibrosis by targeting MMP-9 in Cronic Kidney Diseases | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Nicholas Manolios | Medicine | Western Clinical School | Peptide-Lipid interactions: Effect of cellular milieu on biophysical properties of transmembrane peptides | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Leanne Williams | Medicine | Western Clinical School: Psychological Medicine | INTEGRATE: Intervention Trial: Emotional and General cogniotion and Treatment in Early schizophrenia | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Mary Bebawy | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Microparticle Mediated Transfer of P-glycoprotein in Conferring Multidrug Resistance in Cancer | $50,000.00 |
| CI Name | Faculty | School/Dept | Project Title | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Mary Collins | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Structure and dynamidcs of the GABA-C ligand-binding domain | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Daniela Traini | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Direct Measurements of Interparticulate Forces and Collodial Stability in Pressurised Systems | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Paul Young | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Rapid inhaler prototyping and development | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Dieter Hochuli | Science | Biological Sciences | Leaf traits of angophora costata in isolated urban remnants | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Clare McArthur | Science | Biological Sciences | Abiotic influences on plants | $15,000.00 |
| Prof Trevor Hambley | Science | Chemistry | Optimising the macroscopic and cellular uptake of anticancer drugs in solid tumours | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Trevor Hambley | Science | Chemistry | Targeting MMPS in CNS disorders | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Vincent Ladmiral | Science | Chemistry | Mulitfunctional hybrid nanoparticles from living polymerisation | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Christopher Ling | Science | Chemistry | Novel oxide-ion conductors for fuel cell membranes | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Sebastien Perrier | Science | Chemistry | Hybrid copolymers self-assemblies directed by peptides | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Timothy Schmidt | Science | Chemistry | Efficient upconversion for photovoltaic devices | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Dominic Murphy | Science | History & Philosophy of Sci | Wise in Bedlam: Self Knowledge in Society | $40,000.00 |
| Dr Georg Gottwald | Science | Mathematics & Statistics | Stochastic aspects of dynamical systems | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Margaret Allman-Farinelli | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | e-SIYP: A cluster randomised controlled trial to decrease soft drink intake in young adults | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Janette Brand-Miller | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | A dietary intervention during pregnancy to reduce child obesity: a randomised controlled trial | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Iain Campbell | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | Interleukin-6 /gp130 signaling and actions in the CNS | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Stuart Cordwell | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | Identification of glycoproteins from campylobacter jejuni | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Joel Mackay | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | The structure and function of alternative splicing factor ZRANB2 | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Guilhem Pages | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | NITR diffusion and exchange spectroscopy for studying chemical transformation in heterogeneous biochemical systems | $20,000.00 |
| Prof Jill Trewhella | Science | Molecular & Microbial Bioscien | Structural basis of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy caused by myosin binding protein C | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Scott Croom | Science | Physics | Studying Radio-mode feedback | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Seyed Hashemi-Nezhad | Science | Physics | Research into possible methods for labelling uranium for its traceability | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Christian Karnutsch | Science | Physics | Integrated optofluidic sensor systems | $20,000.00 |
| Dr Laszlo Kiss | Science | Physics | Stellar oscillations as a tool to understanding our galaxy and its stars | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Serdar Kuyucak | Science | Physics | Molecular dynamics simulations of glutanate transporters | $50,000.00 |
| Dr Maryanne Large | Science | Physics | Metallic inclusions in microstructured polymer optical fibres | $15,000.00 |
| Dr David Moss | Science | Physics | Less room at the bottom: trapping electrons and photons for efficient nano-switches | $50,000.00 |
| Prof Robert Boakes | Science | Psychology | Inhibitory flavour learning in the rat | $15,000.00 |
| Dr Katherine Belov | Veterinary Science | Vet Science | Immunogenetics of Devil Facial Tumour Disease | $50,000.00 |