Six Griffith University researchers are the latest recipients of Ideas Grants.
Research projects spanning advanced bionic limb development, malaria drug mechanisms, skin immune response to mosquito-borne infections are among the new Ideas Grants awarded to Griffith, worth a combined value of more than $6 million.
The objective of the Ideas Grant scheme is to support innovative research projects addressing a specific question.
The expected outcomes are: innovative and creative research; funding of researchers at all career stages; funding any area of health and medical research from discovery to implementation.
Griffith’s 2023 NHMRC Ideas Grants awardees are:
– Disassembled/reassembled extracellular vesicles (DR-EVs) – a new class of nanoparticles for disease treatment; $1,158,432.85.
– Next generation of bionic limbs: from innovative assessment of neuromusculosketal functions of the residuum, personalised computational modelling to advanced additive manufacturing of prosthetic attachments; $905,116.
– Defining new mechanisms of action and resistance for the malaria drug proguanil; $831,315.80.
– Targeting Skin Immune Responses to Limit Mosquito-Borne Viral Infection and Disease; $1,282,848.90.
– Combating treatment refractory giardiasis: New drugs and combination therapies; $790,709.
– Combating multidrug-resistant gonorrhoea by breaking down bacterial metal homeostasis; $1,382,509.21.
