News Story

SoMS staff are involved in 14 of the 26 successful UNSW funding applications. Seven project grants, four research fellowships and three career development awards will be given, starting in 2006.

Head of School, Professor Denis Wakefield was delighted with the outcome of this round of NHMRC funding. “I think this is a wonderful result which represents a revival in the success of SoMS in competitive research grants.”

The details of the successful projects and awards are as follows:

Project Grants
Do changes in the production of brain fats and neuromelanin cause brain cell death in Parkinson’s diseases? – Dr Kay Double, Dr Brett Garner, Prof Glenda Halliday
Position and function of T cells in HCV infected liver – Prof Andrew Lloyd, Dr Charles Harvey, Dr Rosemary Ffrench, Mr John Zaunders, Prof Rakesh Kumar, A/Prof Michael Grimm
Understanding fear of falling and risk taking in older people - A/Prof Stephen Lord, Dr Jacqueline Close, Dr Richard Fitzpatrick
Role of immune mechanisms in pain due to nerve injury – Prof David Tracey, Dr Gila Moalem-Taylor
Control of immune function and HIV infection by disulphide-bond switching – Prof Philip Hogg, Dr Akiko Maekawa
Tryptophan metabolism and vascular tone – Prof Roland Stocker, Prof Nicholas Hunt
Genetic basis of a distinctive type of bowel cancer – A/Prof Nicholas Hawkins, Prof Robyn Ward

Research Fellowships
Senior Research Fellow – Dr Kay Double
Senior Principal Research Fellow – Prof George Paxinos
Senior Principal Research Fellow – Prof Philip Hogg
Senior Principal Research Fellow – Prof Roland Stocker

Career Development Awards
Dr Hala Zreigat
Dr Shaun Sandow
Dr Shane Thomas

For more information go to the NHMRC website.