$58m boost for Sydney medical research
University of Sydney researchers have received more than $58 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).听
University of Sydney researchers have received more than $58 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The funding will help develop new treatments for stroke, leukaemia and Parkinson鈥檚 disease, improve melanoma prevention and create a new nasal spray for alcohol dependence.
NHMRC CEO Professor Anne Kelso announced the grants on Saturday, with University of Sydney researchers receiving 53 Project Grants as well as two Career Development Fellowships for mid-career researchers. The grants include:
- A Project Grant to聽聽($3.4m) to investigate whether cash transfers and behaviour change communications can reduce child undernutrition
- A Project Grant ($2.7m) to聽聽to improve the motor performance of infants with cerebral palsy
- A Project Grant ($1.45m) to聽聽to bridge the gap in kidney transplantation through using pigs as donors
- A Project Grant ($673,000) to聽聽to trial an oxytocin nasal spray for alcohol dependence
- A Project Grant ($1m) to聽聽to improve melanoma prevention using personalised genomic risk models as motivation for at-risk individuals
- A Project Grant ($1m) to聽聽to investigate how and why chronic pain develops
- A Project Grant ($1m) to聽聽to explore the efficacy of alternate day fasting diets in obese teens
- A Project Grant ($557,000) to to create the world鈥檚 first molecular blueprint of exercise
- A Career Development Fellowship ($470,000) to聽聽to consider how genomic surveillance can be used to control disease outbreaks.
These results come just weeks after the聽聽(the most out of any institution in Australia), including for the establishment of a new Centre for Research Excellence聽in Indigenous Health and a number of fellowships to support early career researchers.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Duncan Ivison said the results highlighted the University鈥檚 strength in medicine, which is ranked.听
鈥淭he University of Sydney is consistently ranked as one of the world鈥檚 best universities for medicine. We are proud to support some of the best medical researchers in the world to develop new preventions and treatments for diseases such as cancer and to improve the health and wellbeing of millions around the world鈥� he says.听
Last month, University of Sydney researchers also received聽聽to pursue 79 projects in 2017 鈥� from improving our understanding of stars and planets and designing the clean energy highway, to understanding how we maintain vitamin D levels in winter and examining the human rights abuses of migrant workers.
