Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) have secured more than $31 million from the ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to progress life-changing health and medical research.
UQ researchers received 31 awards in total from the NHMRC, including 26 awards from the Ideas Grant scheme, 4 grants from the International Collaborations scheme, and 1 award from the Development Grants scheme.
The successful projects reflect the breadth of research underway at the University to solve issues affecting human health around Australia and the world.
The funding will help to tackle challenges including treating the effects of degenerative diseases, improving wellbeing for First Nations children, and understanding the causes of frailty – one of the most significant challenges for healthy ageing in Australia.
The largest grant from the Ideas Grant Scheme to UQ will support research to expand the use of novel technology used in heart transplantations, to increase donor heart supply and save more lives.
NHMRC Ideas Grant Scheme recipients
- – What Matters to First Nations Kids: Co-designing a wellbeing measure for First Nations children aged 5-11 years (WM2K Project)
- – Assessment and modulation of cortical sensorimotor control for recovery after stroke
- – Reverse translation of a rodent cognitive flexibility task
- – Neuroprotective benefit and safety of preterm neonatal sulphate supplementation
- – Medulloblastoma plasticity, persistence, relapse and resistance
- – Organ Transplantation as a Model of Reversible Frailty
- – How does metabolic conditioning of the host environment enhance persistence of Haemophilus influenzae infections?
- Professor David McGiffin – Hypothermic machine perfusion of circulatory death hearts for transplantation
- – Identifying endometriosis risk and disease variability by mapping endometrial stem cell maturation
- – A calcium influx pathway regulates adaptive cancer drug tolerance
- – A novel approach to reducing the psychosocial burden of infertility treatment
- – CRACing the role of the Flavivirus NS1 protein
- – Tuning mitophagy in mitochondrial diseases
- – Regulators of Tau Pathology Induced by Exosomal and Vesicle-free Tau Seeds
- – Oxidised Cholesterols as Key Regulators of Host Immunity to Tuberculosis
- – Unveiling the modulators of scarless wound healing
- – Neural circuits that control movement: from mice to humans
- – Dissecting the mechanisms of flavivirus neuro-pathogenesis using the systems biology approach
- – Protecting hearts from trastuzumab-induced cardiomyopathy
- – Developing an in vitro human sleep system
- – Targeting IL-6 trans-signalling in brain injury
- – Structurally informed vaccines and therapies to resist and counter JEV emergence
- – A Faster Cure for Tuberculosis: Revealing Adjunctive Antimicrobial Solutions
- – Healing Spirit, Healing Minds: Co-designed healing program to promote social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth
- – A human brain organoid model of acute prenatal hypoxia enables biomarker discovery and drug screening for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
- – In vivo genetic engineering of T-cells for cancer treatment using novel exosome mimetic nanoparticles
NHMRC Development Grants scheme recipients
- – Developing a new type of drug for inflammatory lung disease
NHMRC International Collaborations schemes (e-Asia, CIHR and EU) recipients
- – Supporting healthy lifestyle choices to promote mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous youth aging-out-of-care in urban settings
- – Facilitating focused ultrasound-mediated Tau clearance in Alzheimer’s disease and other Tauopathies by understanding the underlying autophagic mechanisms
- – Implementing an evidence-based diabetes prevention program into diverse urban communities
- – Gut leak and microbiome contribution to severe dengue disease
The full list of funding outcomes is available on NHMRC’s webpage.
