Grant successes

start year	CIA Name	Funding Body	Title	Value
2021	Trent Woodruff	MNDRA Linda Rynalski Bridge Funding Grant	Transcriptomic and Functional Evaluation of Immune-Activated Monocytes in MND	$28,000
2021	Rohan Teasdale	ARC: Discovery	Organising INtracellular Compartments by Formation of Transport Carriers	$549,000
2021	Derik Steyn	MND Australia: Innovator	Targeting NAT1 to improve metabolism and slow disease progression in MND	$100,000
2021	Anne Conibear	Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme	Health Food and Bioactives	$28,500
2021	Jana Vukovic	Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellowship	Combatting the effects of brain damage	$1.25M
2021	Lachlan Rash	MS Australia: Incubator	Testing a new drug candidate to prevent nerve damage in MS	$25,000
2021	Trent Woodruff	NHMRC: Development	Targeting complement C5a receptor 2 as a disease-modifying treatment for motor neuron disease	$636,329
2021	Trent Woodruff	Fight MND	Complement C3A Receptor modulators as disease-modifying drugs for MND	$999,516
2021	Cassy Spiller	Childrens' Hospital Coundation: Mary McConnel Career Boost Program for Women	Novel detection methods for adolexcent germ cell cancers	$47,872
2021	John Lee	Advance Queensland Fellowship	Re-purposing an existing anti-inflammatory drug	$150,000
2020	Cassy Spiller	R.L. Cooper	Development of an ex vivo culture system to determine effects on reproductive endocrine disruption by enviornmental chemicals	$100,000
2020	Mike Bennett	SeaWorld Research and Rescue Foundation	Population structure of Indonesian mobulid rays	$14,097
2020	Chris Dudgeon	Winifred V. Scott	Protecting devil rays in South-east Asua	$192,000
2020	Bradley Launikonis	RyR-1 Foundation	Assessment of the ability of small molecule RyR modulators to correct the Ca2+ fluxes in skeletal muscle fibers with RyR myopathy	$154,530
2020	Derik Steyn	RBWH	MEND MND	$43,000
2020	Julia Pagan	Brain Foundation	Mechanisms to augment mitophagy in Parkinson's disease	$24,500
2020	Peter Noakes	Brain Foundation	Molecular analyses of pre-synaptic compartments in diseased human and mouse brains	$24,500
2020	Trent Woodruff	Children's hospital foundation	Eph receptor blockade to prevent and repair endothelial damage in systemic inflammation	$219,865
2020	John Lee	MNDRIA Innovator	Investigating the therapeutic inhibition of CXCR2 as a disease modifying treatment for motor neurone disease	$100,000
2020	Derik Steyn	MNDRIA Innovator	Tipping the Scales on MND: Preclinical testing of a compound with multiple actions to slow disease progression in MND	$100,000
2020	Trent Woodruff	MNDRIA Innovator	Transcriptomic and Functional Evaluation of Immune-Activated Monocytes in MND	$100,000
2020	Oliver Rawashdeh	NHMRC Ideas 20	The clock as a therapeutic target to improve sleep quality and circadian dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: fighting neurodegeneration by treating chronodegeneration.	$890,837
2020	Julia Pagan	NHMRC Ideas 20	Inhibition of mitophagy by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis	$569,750
2020	Peter Noakes	NHMRC Ideas 20	Understanding neuromuscular synaptic loss in Motor Neuron Disease	$416,210
2020	Karin Borges	NHMRC Ideas 20	Altered glycogen metabolism in epilepsy	$634,603
2020	Jo Bowles	ARC DP20	How do mammalian germ cells transition from mitosis to meiosis?	$505,000
2020	Mel Reichelt	ARC DP20	Understanding how an old heart gets stiff	$440,000
2020	Ethan Scott	ARC DP20	Neural circuits for visual escape behaviour in zebrafish	$465,000
2020	Brad Launikonis	ARC DP20	Sarcoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial functional interactions in muscle	$508,000
2019	Oliver Rawashdeh	Michael J. Fox	Validation of Period1 as a therapeutic target to improve sleep and circadian dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease	$214,184
2019	Brad Launikonis	Jain Foundation	Ca2+ handling and tubular (t-) system function in dysferlinopathy	$202,780
2019	Cassy Spiller	The Kids' Cancer Project	Development of a non-invasive diagnostic and prognostic assay for adolescent testicular cancer	$55,000
2019	Ethan Scott	Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI)	Brain-wide mapping of sensory circuitry in zebrafish models of autism spectrum disorder	$1,267,455
2019	James Cuffe	Allen Foundation 2019	Understanding the relationship between Vitamin B12 deficiency in pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus	$96,591
2019	Brad Launikonis	AFM-Telethon Research Grant	Junctional membrane calcium dynamics in skeletal muscle fibres with ryanodine receptor variants	$65,101
2019	Carley Kilpatrick	Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation	Finding the missing gestation site for grey nurse sharks in Queensland	$23,540
2019	Ethan Scott	ARC Discovery 2019	Neural Mechanisms of water flow perception	$490,000
2019	Wally Thomas	ARC Discovery 2019	How tissues generate the peptide hormone angiotensin II	$445,000
2019	Lizzie Coulson	NHMRC Project 2019	Mechanisms and consequences of cholinergic neuron degeneration in sleep apnoea	$932,284
2019	Lisa Kaminskas	NHMRC Project 2019	Understanding the kinetics of nanomedicine clearance from healthy and diseased lungs	$624,722
2019	Sean Millard	NHMRC Project 2019	Identifying conserved splicing mechanisms in vivo	$514,349
2019	Dom Ng	NHMRC Project 2019	How defects in centrosome to microtubule attachment cause microcephaly	$580,788
2019	Johan Rosengren	NHMRC Project 2019	Pharmacological modulation of the relaxin-3/RXFP3 neuropeptide system for controlling feeding	$689,187
2019	Marc Ruitenberg	NHMRC Project 2019	Understanding the mechanism of action for intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in spinal cord injury	$605,363
2019	Ethan Scott	NHMRC Project 2019	Brain-wide mapping of sensory perception and integration in a vertebrate model	$593,190
2019	Sherry Wu	NHMRC Project 2019	Harnessing the immune system to battle ovarian cancer: A novel approach using naturally occurring exosomes	$535,078