Congratulations to our NHMRC project grant recipients!

A/Prof Kat Holt

Congratulations to our 2018 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grant recipients in Central Clinical School (CCS), see table below.

Monash University as a whole has been awarded almost $76 million in the latest round of NHMRC funding.


Federal Health Minister, the Hon. Greg Hunt, today announced over $500 million across 682 health and medical research grants through the NHMRC and the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF).

Monash attracted the most funding nationally bringing this year’s total to over $104 million in federal grants for medical and health research projects.

Monash attracted funding across six of the eight schemes announced today – Project Grants (74), Postgraduate Scholarships (11), TRIP Fellowships (6), Partnership Project Grants (1), Equipment Grant (1) and International Collaboration (1).

As we all know, the process is intensely competitive and many great research projects didn't make the cut. Hang in there! In addition to the CCS based recipients listed below, we would also like to congratulate A/Prof Kat Holt who received a grant and is currently at the University of Melbourne. Kat will be joining the Department of Infectious Diseases in 2019.

	CIA Name	Grant Title	TOTAL
	Prof Rob Medcalf Australian Centre for Blood Diseases	Improving the safety and predictable efficacy of thrombolytic therapy in acute ischaemic stroke	$1,371,900
	Dr Vilijia Jokubaitis Department of Neuroscience	Multiple Sclerosis: Pregnancy and prognosis	$470,078.80
	A/Prof Nigel Jones Department of Neuroscience	Functional disconnections in schizophrenia Antidepressants in epilepsy	$642,012.60 $1,023,118.70
	Dr Andrew Stewardson Department of Infectious Diseases	Understanding Patient Movement Networks to better prevent dissemination of antimicrobial resistance	$409,719.90
	Prof Karin Jandeleit-Dahm Department of Diabetes	Targeting Nox5 to prevent atherosclerosis and aneurysm formation Lipoxins protect against diabetes associated atherosclerosis	$993,742 $936,759.20
	Dr Andrew Wei Australian Centre for Blood Diseases	Transforming the treatment landscape in elderly Acute Myeloid Leukaemia	$1,071,166
	Prof David Tarlinton Department of Immunology and Pathology	The dynamics of determinants of plasma cell revival	$859,702
	Prof David Curtis Australian Centre for Blood Diseases	Target therapies for chemo-resistant leukaemia cells	$727,087