Health research builds strength in 2007
Together with the $2million in funding awarded earlier this year to a
UniSA team led by Professor Andy Gilbert, the University of South
Australia has been awarded nearly $6million in National Health and
Medical Research Council (NHMRC) related funding in 2006. This
substantial increase in funding levels compared to previous years shows
UniSA building a strong biomedical research capability.
NHMRC projects
NHMRC-ARC Strategic Research Program - Ageing well, ageing productively
Project title: The development and evaluation of management strategies
designed to address poly-morbidity in older people: implications for health
policy planning, practitioners and patients
Area: Sansom Institute
Investigators: Prof Andy Gilbert, A/Prof Libby Roughead, Prof Robyn
McDermott, A/Prof Phil Ryan (University of Adelaide), Prof Adrian Esterman,
Prof Simon Stewart and the late Prof Gary Andrews (who will be replaced by
Prof Luszcz from Flinders University)
Amount awarded: $2,000,000 over five years
Capacity Building Grant in Population Health Research
Project title: Building a cohort of Indigenous research leaders in
community health development
Area: Division of Health Sciences
Investigators: Prof Robyn McDermott, Prof Adrian Esterman, A/Prof Jon
Buckley, A/Prof Peter d’Abbs, A/Prof Komla Tsey, A/Prof Leonie Segal
Amount awarded: $2,376,107 over five years
Project Grants
Project title: Intrauterine Growth Restriction and Development of the
Peripheral and Coronary Vasculature
Area: Sansom Institute
Investigators: Prof Caroline McMillen, Dr Janna Morrison
Amount awarded: $420,000 over three years
Project title: Early origins of obesity
Area: Sansom Institute
Investigators: Prof Caroline McMillen, Ms Beverly Muhlhausler
Amount awarded: $320,250 over three years
Project title: Mechanisms involved in reduced cardiac contractility as a
consequence of growth restriction during fetal development
Area: Sansom Institute
Investigators: Dr Janna Morrison, Giuseppe Posterino
Amount awarded: $305,125 over three years
Project title: Consumer co-payments for subsidised medicines: impact on
access and health outcomes
Area: Sansom Institute
Investigators: Prof Libby Roughead, A/Prof James Semmens, Dr David Preen, Mr
John Glover
Amount awarded: $447,750 over three years
NHMRC grants involving UniSA researchers administered by other institutions
Project title: Investigating the role of the UPF3B gene and nonsense
mediated RNA decay (NMD) process in mental retardation
Investigators: A/Prof Jozef Geez, Dr Paul Thomas, Prof Daniel Geschwind,
Prof Charles Schwartz, A/Prof Douglas Brooks
Amount awarded: $551,500
Administering institution: Adelaide University
Project title: If childhood snoring resolves do neurocognition and
behaviour also improve?
Investigators: Dr J Declan Kennedy, Dr Cameron van den Heuvel, A/Prof
Kurt Lushington and Dr A James Martin
Amount awarded: $507,050
Administering institution: Adelaide University
Project title: Sleep disordered breathing and neurocognitive function in
children post-adenotonsillectomy
Investigators: Dr J Declan Kennedy, A/Prof Kurt Lushington, Dr
Cameron van den Heuvel and Dr A James Martin
Amount awarded: Three-year follow-up. $256,750
Administering institution: Adelaide University
Project title: A population-based survey of recent mothers in South
Australia and Victoria
Investigators: A/Prof Stephanie Brown, Dr Jane Yelland, Prof Jeffrey
Robinson, Prof Judith Lumley, A/Prof Peter Baghurst, Dr Georgina Stamp
Amount awarded: $922,700
Administering institution: La Trobe University