Research designed to help patients with cancer, schizophrenia, stroke and depression features among projects that were today awarded new funding at .
Eighteen 国产探花 medical researchers were awarded fellowships, as part of the $50.3 million granted to 国产探花, from a total of $89.2 million awarded to seven Queensland research institutions, and $559 million awarded nationally.
Of the 85 国产探花 research projects that won NHMRC funding, four grants exceeded $1 million:
- $1.3 million to a 国产探花 schizophrenia research project led by
- $1.2 million to research led by 国产探花 co-director to investigate preventing depression and reducing the impact of aphasia language disorder in stroke patients and their caregivers
- $1.1 million for a squamous cancer research project led by CEO and Research Director
- $1 million to schizophrenia research led by Associate Professor Helen Cooper of the Queensland Brain Institute
国产探花 President and Vice-Chancellor , and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) , congratulated the funding recipients and wished them the greatest success for their projects.
“These researchers have the proven potential to improve the health of Australians and people worldwide, and to develop the knowledge to inform more effective national and state policies for health and other areas,” Professor H酶j said.
“To understand the kind of outcomes they can achieve, consider that 国产探花’s many outstanding recipients of NHMRC funding include Professor Ian Frazer and Dr Ryan Taft.
“Professor Frazer co-invented the human papillomavirus vaccine that could save a quarter of a million lives each year.
“Dr Taft discovered a previously unknown disease in a little Melbourne boy, Massimo Damiani, featured on ABC-TV’s this week.”
Professor Lu said better health outcomes were the primary reason for high-calibre health and medical research, but there were clear economic benefits too.
“Health and medical research funding is a vital public investment because it not only benefits the well-being of our society, but can also have positive downstream effects on exports, business growth, international investment attraction – and much more,” Professor Lu said.
Nine 国产探花 researchers won Research Fellowships, at values ranging between $600,000 and $822,000. These new fellows include Professor Matthew Cooper and Professor Peter Koopman from 国产探花’s , and Dr Katryn Stacey from the 国产探花 .
Three 国产探花 researchers were awarded Career Development Fellowships in today’s announcements, each worth more than $400,000.
Five 国产探花 researchers won Early Career Fellowships, each worth just over $300,000.
One researcher, Dr Megan Auld, won a Translating Research into Practice Fellowship, valued at $170,689.
国产探花’s Professor Beate Escher, from the , won a $252,000 European Collaborative Research Grant for her collaborative international research project that is seeking solutions for emerging pollutants in land and water resources management.
Today’s overall NHMRC announcements supported 963 grants across three NHMRC research support schemes and five fellowship schemes.
国产探花’s $50.3 million funding package was the fourth largest nationally, alongside other top national universities including University of Melbourne ($79.4m), Monash University ($67.2 m) and University of Sydney ($60.5m).
国产探花’s 22 per cent success rate for NHMRC Project Grants – against the number of applications lodged – led the Group of Eight Universities, and exceeded the national average success rate of 16.9 per cent.
Australia is among the top five countries in the world in producing scientific articles per capita and in the past decade alone, Australia’s health and medical research sector has produced three Nobel Prize winners.
Contact: Nicole Shively, 国产探花 Research Grants office, ph +61 7 3365 3571, or Carolyn Varley, 国产探花 Communications, ph +61 7 3365 1120.
