Congratulations to SCS 2020 NHMRC Ideas grants recepients!

Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences researchers have continued their success in the latest round of funding, awarded in excess of $40m, across 43 projects in the highly competitive 2020 NHMRC Ideas Grant scheme, for innovative research projects.  See Monash University announcement here.

Congratulations to all SCS NHMRC Ideas grants recipients!

Hudson Institute of Medical Research

• Should you be eating that? Food-derived bacteria and their role in treating disease Dr Sam Forster
• Improving the diagnosis of Disorders Sex Development (DSD) - Professor Vincent Harley
• The role of interferon epsilon in ovarian cancer - Professor Paul Hertzog

Department of Medicine

• Unravelling NET confusion in Vasculitis - Dr Kim O'Sullivan
• Interferon Epsilon as a novel regulator of host-bacterial interaction in homeostasis, infection and inflammation - Professor David Nikolic-Paterson

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

• Soft wearable patches for stillbirth prevention  - Professor Euan Wallace and Dr Vinayak Smith (Project lead - Professor Wenlong Cheng)

Department of Paediatrics

• A new mechanism of tissue fibrosis – a small peptide regulator of the TGF-beta1/Smad pathway - Dr Edward Giles

Department of Psychiatry

• ARX- A hub gene for a common biological pathway in schizophrenia - Dr Rachel Hill
• Betacellulin: defining a novel sub-type in schizophrenia - Professor Suresh Sundram