The has awarded a total of almost $54 million to 84 projects, fellowships and centres at Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland.
Youth mental illness, musculoskeletal conditions, lung disease in children, neurodegenerative disease, cerebral palsy and better diagnosis and treatment of melanomas are among the raft of health issues that Â鶹ÊÓƵ researchers will tackle, thanks to the new NHMRC funding.
In a nationwide announcement of competitive research funding today (9 November), the NHMRC also revealed it would fund two new collaborative centres of research excellence at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
said the Â鶹ÊÓƵ research would address a broad and important range of health issues.
“Many of the projects focus on pressing health problems, for example - the rise of drug-resistant and life-threatening urinary tract infections,” Professor Ward said.
“Others offer great hope for a better world, including a project that is already on the path towards giving doctors the ability to trigger the growth of new cardiac muscle in patients after a heart attack.
“The NHMRC’s large investment here speaks to Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s extremely high standard of research. On behalf of the University’s senior executive, I congratulate all our researchers whose projects were successful in this funding round.”
Professor Ward said it was a coup that Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the would become home to two new national Centres of Research Excellence, each of which would receive more than $2 million in NHMRC funding over five years.
“One of these centres will focus on the study of skin cancers, and the other on better use of antibiotics,” Professor Ward said.
“We are delighted that Â鶹ÊÓƵ will collaborate with the Cancer Council Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and the University of Sydney in the skin cancer centre, under the leadership of ."
“ will lead the antibiotic-focused centre, which will bring together national and international collaborators.”
A total of 47 NHMRC Project Grants were awarded to Â鶹ÊÓƵ, worth more than $31.7 million.
This year Â鶹ÊÓƵ was awarded its largest funded Project Grant to date - from Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s School of Medicine ($3.032 million) will research strategies for improving the effectiveness of lung cancer screening.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ was awarded more than $14 million over five years for 30 new fellowships, making the university the third most-funded in Australia in terms of fellowships.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ also received four NHMRC Development Grants, totalling $3 million.
In the inaugural year of the NHMRC-National Natural Science Foundation of China scheme, Â鶹ÊÓƵ was successful in its single funding application.
from the School of Biomedical Sciences will receive $598,305 over five years of his project, which aims to develop methods for early prediction of the risks of frequently occurring sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy and thereby reduce diabetes-induced blindness.
A full list of successful applicants can be found
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