Recent Grants

Grants Approved June 2010

The Bionic Ear Institute
www.bionicear.org
Monitoring Brain Activity to Predict Epileptic Seizures
$30,000

Fight Cancer Foundation
www.fightcancer.org.au
The Bone Marrow Research Laboratories
$14,450

St Vincent’s Hospital
www.svhm.org.au
Biological Scaffolds for the Repair of Spinal Cord Injury
$32,700

St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research
www.svi.edu.au
How Does Bacterial Infection Affect Susceptibility to Type 1 Diabetes?
$15,500

Swinburne University of Technology
www.swinburne.edu.au
Understanding and Treating Major Diseases Through T-Cell Research
$132,500

Grants Approved June 2009

Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery
www.bobim.org
Repairing Cardiac Muscle with Stem Cells
$98,855

Bone Marrow Donor Institute
www.bmdi.org.au
Finding New Markers for the Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer
$30,000

Deakin University
www.deakin.edu.au
Health benefits of long-term strength training in patients with chronic kidney disease
$50,000

Florey Neuroscience Institutes
www.florey.edu.au
Studying the effects of inhalant abuse on the teenage brain – an animal model
$35,000

Heart Foundation Victoria
www.heartfoundation.com.au
Gender differences in heart disease
$60,000

La Trobe University
www.latrobe.edu.au
The impact of indoor allergen exposure on asthma exacerbations in children and adolescents
$18,190

Monash Institute of Medical Research
www.monashinstitute.org
Severe radiotherapy reactions: genome-wide exon array analysis and early radiation response
$31,059

Monash University
www.monash.edu.au
Use of Artificial Extracellular Matrices for Skin Regeneration
$81,000

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
www.mcri.edu.au
Building the Juvenile Idiopathic Biobank at the Murdoch Childrens Research Instititute: Opportunities for Risk Factor Identification
$40,000

RMIT University
www.rmit.edu.au
Improved detection of Clostridium difficile and a new method to track highly lethal hospital-acquired infections due to Clostridium difficile
$5,900

St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research
www.svi.edu.au
Designing New Strategies to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease
$12,300

University of Ballarat
www.ballarat.edu.au
Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Ballarat: Establishment of the LEW Carty Laboratory
$300,000

University of Melbourne
www.unimelb.edu.au
Linking Diet to Diabetes
$21,000

Victoria University
www.vu.edu.au
Molecular and Gene Characteristics of Skeletal Muscle in Patients with Oesteoarthritis
$41,811