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Dr Shane Thomas, of the Centre for Vascular Research (CVR), was given special mention for receiving top rankings in the Grants in Aid category of the awards. He will receive $120,000 for his work on Myeloperoxidase and endothelial dysfunction.

Other successful Grants in Aid projects are:
Dr Pascal Carrive, in the Department of Anatomy: Role of medullary raphe nuclei in the cardiovascular response to psychological stress
Professor Levon Khachigian, from the CVR: Yin yang-1 for the inhibition of graft failure
Dr Vaughan Macefield, a conjoint academic based at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute: Nitric oxide and sympathetic reflex control of blood pressure in health and hypertension
Associate Professor Wendy Jessup, from the CVR: Role of ABCG1 in cellular cholestrol export

Dr Guishi Zhang, who is also based at the CVR, has received a Biomedical Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for c-Jun targeting strategies as novel inhibitors of vascular inflammation. He will receive $120,320 over two years.

The total funding for those six research grants is over $720, 000.

For further information about the grants go to the Heart Foundation website