Congratulations to NHMRC project and ECR grants for Central Clinical School researchers

Congratulations to the CCS researchers who were successful in the 2014 NHMRC funding round. Five Early Career fellowships (including one Career Development Fellowship) and five project grants were awarded with an income total of approximately $5.1M. See detail below. The national success rate declined to 14.9% as fewer projects were awarded more money. Source: NHMRC 2014 Outcomes of funding rounds.

AMREP EMCR Collaborative seed grant applications due 24 October 2014

Apply for an AMREP Collaborative Seed Grant to facilitate a collaboration between you and another early or mid-career researcher (EMCR) from a different institution within the AMREP. Applications will be accepted from all fields of research, and grant funds may be used for any purpose that facilitates research collaboration. Two awards of up to $4000 will be awarded; comprising $2000 from each of the participating institutions.

• Grant applications are due by 24 October 2014.
• See EMCR Seed Grants web page for detail.

Congratulations! First Australian to receive new MS grant

L-R: PhD student Jae Lee
with Dr Steven Petratos

Congratulations to Monash University’s Dr Steven Petratos, who is the only Australian recipient of the International Progressive MS Alliance first round of grants. Dr Petratos, Department of Medicine, is doing research into new therapies to stop progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic condition that worsens over time disrupting the flow of information within the brain and body. Progressive MS takes away vision, mobility, cognition, and the ability to work. See Monash story. For more photos of Steven's lab group and students, see Photo gallery.

$1.5M grant for project to make more heart transplants possible

L-R: Dr Rouchong Ou, Dr John
Woodard & Prof Frank Rosenfeldt.
Absent: Mr Jonathan Neville

Professor Frank Rosenfeldt is one of four researchers working on a new project to enable the production of a device to perfuse transplant donor hearts. The project based at the Alfred and Monash University has received a $1.5M government grant to develop a device which will reduce the damage produced by ice storage and enable hearts to be resuscitated and used as human transplants.