Congratulations to our 2019 NHMRC grant winners

CCS's 13 successful Investigator grant recipients

Congratulations to our National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator grant recipients in Central Clinical School (CCS)!

CCS researchers have been awarded a total of $22.5 million across 13 grants, the highest number in our Faculty. CCS areas of expertise range across the discipline areas of sexual health, blood diseases, neuroscience, infectious diseases, diabetes, immunology and mental health. Funding for these grants will begin in 2020.

Overall, the Faculty's clinical schools did outstandingly well, with the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health obtaining 8 Investigator grants. Our sister school at the Alfred campus, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, also did well. Congratulations to all!

Monash University as a whole has been awarded $53.7 million in the latest round of NHMRC funding for investigator grants, announced last Thursday, 29 August 2019.

We would especially like to congratulate our Emerging Leader grant winners, young researchers mentored by established researchers, whose work shows great potential for transforming people's lives for the better.

Dr Fiona Brown EL1* Australian Centre for Blood Diseases

A translational framework for discovering novel solutions for drug resistance in acute myeloid leukaemia

$639,750

Dr David Wright
Department of Neuroscience
EL1 Next Generation Imaging Biomarkers for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
639,750

Dr Richelle Mychasiuk
Department of Neuroscience EL2
Investigating the Intersection Between Sleep, Pain, and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: What is the Role of the Orexin System
1,454,485

Prof Terry O’Brien Department of Neuroscience L2
Developing new treatments and identifying biomarkers to enable transformational, precision medicine based care for patients with drug resistant epilepsy
2,848,640

Dr Kelly Wyres
Department of Infectious Diseases EL1
A clone-specific risk framework for Klebsiella pneumoniae transmission and AMR
639,750

Dr Nenad Macesic
Department of Infectious Diseases EL1
Integrating genomic and artificial intelligence approaches to combat antimicrobial resistance
639,750

Prof Mark Cooper Department of Diabetes L3
Reducing the burden of diabetic complications
3,451,595

Prof David Tarlinton
Department of Immunology and Pathology L2
Antibody secreting plasma cells as targets for improved health, vaccines and therapeutics for autoimmune diseases
1,973,640

Prof Jayashri Kulkarni Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre L3
Innovating Women's Mental Health
2,401,595

Dr Andrew Taylor Department of Medicine L1
Cardiac MRI in the evaluation of cardiovascular disease – enhancing mechanistic understanding and diagnostic certainty to drive new paradigms of care
1,864,015

Dr Catriona Bradshaw Melbourne Sexual Health CentreL1
Innovative Approaches to Improving Treatment and Control of Mycoplasma genitalium and bacterial vaginosis
2,007,424

Prof Kit Fairley
Melbourne Sexual Health CentreL2 Optimising the control and management of sexually transmitted infections through research and innovation
2,500,000

Dr Eric Chow Melbourne Sexual Health Centre EL2
A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the transmission dynamics and the control of sexually transmitted infections
1,504,485
*Note re new NHMRC categories: L=Leader and EL=Emerging leader. See more about the Investigator scheme at: www.nhmrc.gov.au/funding/find-funding/investigator-grants