Major support will be provided to health research in Tasmania, thanks to more than $9.2 million in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding awarded to the College of Health and Medicine.
A $5 million NHMRC Synergy Grant was awarded to Menzies Institute for Medical Research’s Associate Professor Seana Gall and her team to improve the prediction of those at risk of stroke, identify new interventions to prevent stroke and establish a ground-breaking nationwide surveillance system for stroke.
The research was one of a pool of successful College of Health and Medicine research projects including Menzies research totalling over $8 million in funding, as well as School of Medicine and Wicking Centre for Dementia Research and Education projects set to receive around $1 million.
Other successful research projects include:
Wicking Centre
-Understanding how nerve cell communication is lost in neurodegenerative disease and injury: Professor Anna King, Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre.
School of Medicine:
-Research into how neurotrophin modulate learning and memory formation: Dr John Lin (School of Medicine).
Menzies:
-Prediction and detection of apnoea in pre-term infants: Professor Peter Dargaville (NHMRC Ideas Grant) and Kathleen Lim (NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship) and Kathleen Lim (NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship);
-Identifying the genetic causes and modifiers of paediatric cataract: Professor Kathryn Burdon (NHMRC Ideas Grant);
-Non-invasive controlled interventions into neovascular blindness: Dr Guei-Sheung Liu (NHMRC Ideas Grant);
-Research on how the packaging of our genetic material affects brain cancer: Dr Owen Marshall (NHMRC Ideas Grant).
