NHMRC Project Grants 2013, Career Development Fellowships, Early Career Fellowships; and ARC Discovery Project Grantsfor 2013 awarded to brain sciences researchers at UNSW.

NHMRC Project Grants

50 NHMRC Project Grantswith more than $24.68million were granted to UNSW of which 20 projects (40.0 %) with more than $10.03 million (40.6%) were awarded to brain sciences researchers.

Note: The list presented below is not an exhaustive account of funding approved to brain sciences researchers in that it includes only grants administered by UNSW.

  • Prof. Mark Dadds and Dr David Hawes. Early intervention for treatment-resistant conduct disorder in children. $670,316
  • Prof. Alison Ritter et al. The value of providing health interventions for heroin use: a cost benefit analysis. $579,300
  • Prof. Margaret Morris. How does exercise ameliorate programming of metabolic dysfunction in offspring of obese mothers? $506,030
  • Prof. Richard Bryant. Treating prolonged grief disorder. $442,002
  • Prof. Maree Teesson et al. The efficacy of behavioural activation therapy in treating depression among individuals with opioid dependence. $708,997
  • Prof. Perminder Sachdev et al. The Older Australian Twins Study (OATS) of healthy brain ageing and age-related neurocognitive disorders. $912,022
  • Dr Gila Moalem-Taylor. Understanding the role of regulatory T cells in chronic pain following nerve injury. $566,783
  • Dr Joel Pearson. Controlling intrusive images in psychopathologies: Disarming symptoms and enhancing treatment. $275,586
  • Prof. Helen Christensen et al. Reducing suicide ideation: a randomized controlled trial of a novel web intervention. $433,889
  • Prof. Rhoshel Lenroot et al. An MRI study of emotional processing deficits in childhood. $559,002
  • A/Prof. Arun Krishnan et al. Nerve excitability assessment: a novel biomarker for the early detection of diabetic neuropathy. $363,170
  • Prof. Gavan McNally. Extinction circuits for drug seeking. $460,569
  • A/Prof. Anthony Shakeshaft et al. Intervention trial to reduce alcohol related harms among high risk young Indigenous Australians. $379,931
  • Dr Renee Morris et al. Viral-mediated modulation of BDNF expression in motor neurons to promote the recovery of hand/digits function in a rat model of spinal cord injury that impairs normal grasping action. $329,211
  • Prof. Edna Hardeman et al. Gtf2ird1 and the molecular and cellular basis of human behaviour. $568,912
  • A/Prof. Matthias Klugmann. Non-invasive gene delivery for expression of therapeutic genes in oligodendrocytes: a new strategy to treat myelin diseases. $573,627
  • Prof. Rick Richardson. Developmental differences in the role of the medial prefrontal cortex in fear regulation. $342,250
  • Prof. Colleen Loo et al. Electrical stimulation with a “random noise” pattern: a new approach for the treatment of depression. $505,380
  • Dr Melissa Green et al. Epistatic genetic effects on neuroanatomical subtypes of schizophrenia. $399,324
  • Prof. Gary Housley. Establishing the role of cochlear type II spiral ganglion sensory neurons in hearing: in one ear and out the other. $459,433

9 NHMRC Career Development Fellowships with $3.66 million were granted to UNSW of which 3 grants with $1,235,368 (33.7%) were awarded to brain sciences researchers.

  • Dr Lucette Cysique. Brain and chronic immune burden. $397,724
  • Dr Tim Karl. Gene-environment interactions in brain disorders. $439,920
  • Dr Joel Pearson. Fighting mental disorders. $397,724

15 NHMRC Early Career Fellowships with $4.58 million were granted to UNSW of which 7 grants with $2,039,150 (44.4%) were awarded to brain sciences researchers.

  • Dr Matthew Sunderland. Improving the diagnostic validity of multiple mental disorders. $299,564
  • Dr Stephen Abbott. Central excitatory pathways of the autonomic nervous system. $323,164
  • Mr Michael Livingston. Alcohol consumption and health inequalities – the role of alcohol policy. $299,564
  • Dr Nicole Kochan. Improving clinical diagnosis of mild neurocognitive disorders. $149,782
  • Dr David Tsai. Understanding the neural circuits in the retina. $367,948
  • Dr Nady Braidy. Sirtuin single nucleotide polymorphisms in brain ageing. $299,564
  • Dr Kathryn Baker. How is fear inhibited in the adolescent brain? $299,564

ARC Discovery Project Grants and Linkage Grants for 2013

64 ARC Discovery Project Grants with more than $20.48 million were granted to UNSW of which10 projects (15.6 %) with $3,186,543(15.5%) were awarded to brain sciences researchers.

Note: The list presented below is not an exhaustive account of funding approved to brain sciences researchers in that it includes only grants administered by UNSW.

  • Dr Ehsan Arabzadeh. Sensory integration in the whisker pathway: cortical transformations and the neuronal mechanisms that underlie decision confidence. $360,000
  • Prof. Brett Hayes et al. How many types of reasoning are there and how do they develop? $231,014
  • Prof. Peter Lovibond et al. The role of reward expectancy and reward availability in appetitive motivation. $268,000
  • Prof. Gavan McNally. Dual routes to fear and aversive motivation. $400,000
  • Dr Stephen Redmond and Prof. Stephen Lord. Signal processing algorithms for interpreting multi-dimensional ambulatory data during normal activities: correlates of current measures of fall risk. $330,000
  • Prof. Claude Sammut. Learning and planning with qualitative models. $378,000
  • Prof. Victor Solo. Point processes system identification under simultaneity. $330,000
  • Dr Pall Thordarson. How are self-assembled gels formed? From trial-and-error to rational molecular design. $330,000
  • Dr Lenny Vartanian et al. Intergroup emotions and prejudice toward obese people. $245,529
  • Prof. Reginald Westbrook and Prof. Simon Killcross. Neural substrates of higher-order conditioned fear. $314,000

ARC Linkage Projects for 2013

3 projects with total of $1,474,748 were awarded to brain sciences researchers.

Note: The list presented below is not an exhaustive account of funding approved to brain sciences researchers in that it includes only grants administered by UNSW.

  • Prof. Richard Bryant, A/Prof. Zachary Steel et al. Building economic development through psychosocial intervention. $623,748
  • A/Prof. Richard Kemp et al. Protecting the Australian passport by developing face recognition training programs that effectively integrate human operators and machine systems. $495,000
  • Prof. Nigel Lovell et al. Engineering the convergence of telecare and telehealth. $356,000