Tuesday 10 November 2015

SCS success in latest NHMRC funding announcement

The School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (SCS) received $6.5 million to lead 11 research projects in this week’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding announcement.

Announced yesterday, the Minister for Health Susan Ley MP said the funding will support 836 new research grants worth more than $630 million.

“NHMRC funding remains both the most prestigious and most important source of research funding in Australian medical research,” said Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Professor Eric Morand.  

“The continued success of SCS researchers highlights the strength of collaborative research at this precinct.”

“We have had success across the multiple domains of our research this year. However, falling national funding success rates mean that many outstanding researchers did not have positive outcomes this year and we need to work together to support those unlucky this year to succeed in future rounds,” added Professor Morand. 

Medical researchers at Monash University attracted a total of $76.9 million dollars in funding from the NHMRC, ranked second in Australia in project grants and third for the total amount funded in this year’s round.

The 114 NHMRC-funded projects range across a number of categories, including public health, clinical medicine and science, and basic science.



SCS Grant and Fellowship recipients:

Career Development Fellowships
               Dr Connie Wong              

Early Career Fellowships
               Dr Monique Kilkenny       
               Dr Courtney McDonald  
              
Project Grants
               Dr Arun Azad                     
               Dr Greg Tesch                   
               Dr Tanya Davison            
               Dr Connie Wong              
               Prof Richard Kitching      
               Prof Stuart Hooper

TRIP Fellowship
               Assoc Prof Gillian Nixon

NHMRC and ARC Dementia Research Development Fellowships
               Dr Chris Moran
                             
ARC Discovery Project

               Dr Glenn Melvin

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