Melbourne Medical School researchers awarded NHMRC Investigator Grant funding
Seven researchers from the Melbourne Medical School have been awarded funding through the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants.
The NHMRC Investigator Grant scheme supports the health and medical research program of outstanding investigators at all career stages.
Funded projects:
- Dr Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid from the Department of Critical Care: Targeting Muscle Loss to Improve Outcomes from Critical Illness
- Professor Ben Harrison from the Department of Psychiatry: Targeting Novel Treatment Mechanisms in Mood and Anxiety Disorders
- Dr Scott McAlister from the Department of Critical Care: Reducing low value care to reduce healthcare's carbon emissions
- Associate Professor Lachlan Miles from the Department of Critical Care: Using sodium ascorbate to reduce neuroinflammation and delirium after cardiac surgery
- Dr Karen Oliver from the Department of Medicine – Austin Health: Integrating monogenic and polygenic epilepsy risk factors to advance molecular diagnoses and to understand disease risk
- Professor Fiona Russell from the Department of Paediatrics: Accelerating Global Vaccine Policy: Leveraging Regional Networks to Address Vaccine Research Gaps
- Dr Jesse Zanker from the Department of Medicine – Royal Melbourne Hospital: Strengths-based approaches: Responding to older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults’ needs for aged care services.
Read the full list of recipients from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and learn more about the NHMRC Investigator Grants on the NHMRC website.