The University of South
Australia has won over $700,000 in funding from the National Health
and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Project Grant Scheme, a highly competitive and
prestigious award providing support to outstanding teams of researchers
undertaking high quality and innovative projects in the health sciences.
UniSA has also won over $3.6 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) funding under Discovery and Linkage Projects. For a full listing of the 16 projects administered by UniSA see Grant awardees 2005.
Pharmacokinetics of carnitine and acylcarnitines in end stage
renal disease patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis
Investigators:
Professor Allan Evans and Associate Professor Randall
Faull (from the Royal Adelaide Hospital).
Amount awarded: 2005 to 2007 - $253,000
Nurses, older people and hospitals: meeting new challenges
Investigators:
Professor Julianne Cheek and her team comprising
Ms Terri
Gibson,
Dr Kay Price
and Professor Julienne Meyer (City University, London).
Amount awarded: 2005 to 2007 - $455,750
Predictors and correlates of health-related quality of life and
morbidity in overweight/obese adolescents: cohort study
Investigators: Associate Professor Melissa Wake (from the Royal Children's Hospital,
Victoria),
Dr Tim Olds (UniSA) et al. Amount awarded: 2005 to 2007 - $503,200
A population based linked data analysis of the prognostic
determinants of out of hospital cardiac arrest
Investigators: Dr Judith Finn, Professor D'Arcy Holman, Associate
Professor Ian Jacobs and
Professor Simon Stewart (UniSA). Amount awarded: 2005 to 2006 -
$171,500
Predicting human drug metabolism and kinetics: In vitro and in silico
Investigators: Professor John Miners et al with
Associate Professor Ross McKinnon (UniSA). Amount awarded: 2005 to
2007 - $432,750
