All Grants with Funding 2006

Australian Research Council - Linkage Projects
CL Geczy, I. Clark
$110,000
Identification of novel markers of inflammation

JE Hunt, JA Cairns, P McNeil
$77,328
Novel human tryptases: their potential role in inflammatory diseases of the young and old

Australian Research Council - Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Grant (LIEF)
M. Guilhaus, M. Raftery, C.Geczy and others
$1,311,000
High resolution bioanalytical Fourier transform mass spectrometer combined with liquid chromatograph

ASCIA
Dr Brynn Wainstein, A/Prof John B. Ziegler
$8,000
Evaluation of the Risk of Anaphylaxis in Currently and Previously Peanut Allergic Children Advised to Avoid Peanut v. Those Advised to Regularly Consume Peanut

Aventis Pharma
JE Hunt, HP McNeil
Novel human tryptases: their potential role in inflammatory diseases of the young and old
$25,151

Commonwealth AIDS Research Grants to HIV and Hepatitis Centres (ANCHARD)
Ffrench R, Lloyd AR, Keoshkerian E
Development and validation of immunological assays to assess HCV immunity for cohort studies and clinical trials of HCV vaccines and therapies
$60,000

DEST
Major National Research Facility
G Smythe & C Geczy
$150,000
Proteomics node for protein post-translational modifications and metabolomics

Department of Veterans' Affairs
MV Apte, JS Wilson, RC Pirola
Alcohol and pancreatic stellate cells
$93,500

Leslie Steven's Fund for Newborn Care
Day AS, Lui K, Ooi J
$30,000
Molecular analysis of the development of the intestinal microflora in premature and term infants and determination of the potential role of flora in gut disease in these infants.

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Project grants
MN Lassere, N Bellamy, KR Johnson, R Day, Rick Iedema, P Tugwell
$447, 825
Measuring Adverse Events: Development of a Patient-Centred Adverse Event Reporting Tool (PAET)

Dr Robert Lindeman, Dr Tony Roscioli, Dr Michael Buckley, A/Pr John Ziegler
$252,750
Identification of the molecular genetic basis of the hepatic veno-occlusive disease with immunodeficiency syndrome

M Apte, J Wilson, D Goldstein, R Kumar
Epithelial - stromal interactions in pancreatic cancer: role of pancreatic stellate cells
$143,250

N Di Girolamo, D Wakefield, M Coroneo
Ultraviolet-induced effector molecules in ocular surface diseases: regulation of expression in vitro and in vivo
$144,500

JH Erlich, P Peake
The role of tissue factor in renal ischaemia-reperfusion injury
$88,250

CL Geczy, Z Yang, K Hsu, N Tedla
S100 proteins in allergic inflammation
$157,750

Lloyd, Harvey, Ffrench, Zaunders, Kumar, Grimm
Fine positioning and effector function of T cells recruited to the HCV-infected liver
$108,375

MC Grimm, AR Lloyd
Immune regulation, cellular trafficking and chemokine receptors in intestinal inflammation
$65,000

SA Krilis
Antiphospholipid antibodies, beta 2-glycoprotein I and control of coagulation.
$154,500

SA Krilis
IL-16 regulates mast cell chemotaxis and function through the tetraspanin CD9.
$152,500

RK Kumar, PS Foster
Influence of early-life viral infection on severity of murine chronic asthma and acute exacerbations
$169,500

AR Lloyd, G Marinos, PS Haber, RA Ffrench, WD Rawlinson
The HITS study: modes of transmission, natural history and determinants of outcome from primary hepatitis C infection
$177,500

KF Scott, GG Graham, HP McNeil
The mechanism of action of secreted phospholipase A2 and its inhibition in inflammation
$175,000

C. Shepherd, C. Geczy, M. Raftery, G. Halliday
Targeting inflammatory mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease
$128,000

WD Rawlinson, G Scott
HCMV protein kinase and DNA polymerase domains involved in antiviral sensitivity, viral replication and cell tropism
$88,500

NT Tedla, C Geczy, P McNeil
Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptors regulate the function of the major cells involved in allergic inflammation.
$83,500

Equipment grants
CL Geczy, AR Lloyd, N Tedla, MV Apte, C Harvey
NanoDrop Spectrophotometer
$12,000

LM Khachigian, C Geczy, CN Chesterman
GeneQuant Pro: RNA/DNA Calculator
$13,992

JE Hunt
BioRad GenePulser XL
$11,627

AR Lloyd, D Wakefield, M Grimm, R Kumar, P Thomas, C Gezcy, P McNeil, J Hunt, N Tedla, N Di Girolamo
ELISpot Reader System, ELR03, and Bioreader 4000 Pro-X
$50,000

AD Kelleher, DA Cooper, AR Lloyd, BJ Brew, G Guillemin
FACSAria (TM)3 Analyser
$80,000

W Rawlinson, MD Norris, SM Riordan, ME Craig, P Palasanthiran
Semi-automatic Dried Blood Spot Sampler, and Nanodrop Analyzer for DNA
$40,000

National Heart Foundation
SB Freedman & CL Geczy
Serum amyloid A as a mediator of thrombotic risk in coronary atherosclerosis
$61,000

National Institutes of Health, USA
J Kaldor G Dore, NJ Crofts, M Hellard, P Haber, K Dolan, A Lloyd, W Rawlinson, G McCaughan, G Farrell, W Sievert, I van Beek
Longitudinal cohort of new acquired hepatitis C infection
$535,278

Dust Diseases Board of NSW Project Grant
Yates DH, Johnson A, Thomas PS
Collaboration with: NSW Dust Diseases Board Research Unit
$225,000

Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)
PJ McCluskey, D Wakefield
Genetic variations in the body's ability to fight infection may be important in initiating attacks of ocular inflammation
$41,093

D Wakefield
The role of UV light in the pathogenesis of cataract
$43,287

Prince Henry & Prince of Wales Hospital Centenary Research Fund
D Goldstein, M Apte
Epithelial - stromal interactions in pancreatic cancer: role of pancreatic stellate cells
$18,000

Royal Australasian College of Physicians - Grants
MN Lassere
Power of the patient: interventions to improve the quality of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care in general practice and rheumatology specialty practice
$200,800

Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation
Woodhead H, Day AS, Leach ST
$50,000
Mechanisms of diminished bone strength in childhood inflammatory bowel disease: factors influencing bone mineralisation, geometry, histo-morphometry, metabolism and fracture incidence.

Whitten K, Day AS, Woodhead H, Leach ST
$15,000
Effect of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition on Bone Metabolism in Children with Crohn's Disease

Day AS, Leach ST
$15,000
Do faecal markers predict relapse in children with IBD currently in remission? SCH Foundation.

J. B. Ziegler, T. Roscioli, M. F. Buckley
$14,718
Assessment of the role of mutations in the VODI gene in common variable immunodeficiency

SIDS Foundation
W Rawlinson, M Craig
Transplacental transmission of viruses and pathogenesis of still births, pre-term births and congenital anomalies
$80,000

UNSW Early Career Researcher
K. Hsu & M. Raftery
Identification of transcription factors binding the promoter region of S100A8
$20,000

UNSW Faculty Research Grant Program
Day AS, Leach ST
$20,000
Analysis of faecal markers in siblings and parents of children diagnosed with IBD

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