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UNSW Goldstar Awards, worth $30,000 each, are made for highly ranked ARC and NHMRC applications that just missed out on funding. The awards are given on the condition that recipients reapply to either ARC or NHMRC in the very next round. SoMS staff received eight awards for 2006, compared with just five awards in 2005.

The School was also well represented by its staff in the Faculty Research Grants Program (FRGP), winning a total of 13 awards. The program is designed to support cross disciplinary research and emerging research strengths. The Early Career Researcher Awards (ECR) are part of the Program and are available to staff who have recently begun a career in research.

The successful UNSW Goldstar Awards projects for 2006 are:
Dr Pascal Carrive - Role of medullary raphe nuclei in the expression of cardiovascular response to psychological stress
Prof Beng Chong - Interaction of transcription factors GATA-1, Fli-1 and cofactors in haematopoiesis and myelodysplastic syndrome
Dr Richard Fitzpatrick - Neurophysiology of Human Balance and Posture
Dr Katherina Gaus - Membrane structure at T-cell activation sites and immunological synapses
A/Prof Michael Grimm - The appendix in intestinal immunity and inflammatory bowel disease
G Moalem-Taylor - Modulation of immune responses in regulating chronic pain following nerve injury
A/Prof Wendy Jessup - Role of ABCG1 in cellular cholesterol export
Prof George Paxinos - Organisations of the Human Cortex Revealed by Gene Expression Profiles

The successful Faculty Research Grants Program for 2006 are:

Faculty Research Grants
Dr Lu Liu - Interactions between prostaglandins and human enteric nervous system: alterations in disease
Prof Margaret Morris - Examining long term consequences of early onset nutritional deprivation or excess

Early Career Researcher Awards
Dr David Bentley - Neuromuscular and hormonal adaptations to concurrent strength and endurance training
Dr Yati Boutcher - Vascular abnormality and baroreceptor sensitivity in young offspring of hypertensive patients
Dr Timothy Carroll - Why does unilateral resistance training increase the strength of the opposite untrained limb?
Dr Stephanie de Dios - Endothelial Cell-Leukocyte Interactions: Atmoic Force Microscopy Studies
Dr Charles Harvey - The immunogenetic outcomes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
Dr Zhicong He - Towards hypoxia active cytotoxins
Dr Andrew Herries - Patterns of modern human behaviour and exploitation in the late Pleistocene and Holocene at Gorrkop, North Cape Province, South Africa
Dr Trevor Lewis - Changes in conformation of the pore helix between the open and closed states of the homomeric glycine receptor
Dr Kylie Mansfield - Are drug metabolites therapeutically effective? A comparison of commonly used antimuscarinic agents and their metabolites.
Dr Gillian Scott - Pathogenesis of CMV infection in solid organ transplant recipients following long-term anti-viral therapy
Dr David Wilson - Allocation of scarce HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drugs in resource-constrained countries: consequences for ethics, equity and HIV epidemiology

Details of all Goldstar Award and Faculty Research Grant recipients can be found on the UNSW Research Services website.