News & Events 2008
2009 Major Research Equipment Grants Allocated
8 December 2008
There were 84 applications for funding this year, with total requests for $10.6m. There were 8 successful applications from the Faculty of Medicine, as outlined below.
Results of the FRG/ECR Grant Applications 2008
3 December 2008
Faculty Research Grants incorporating the Early Career Researchers Grants Scheme 2009
Dean's Awards
20 November 2008
The Dean's Awards for Outstanding Achievement and the Dean's List recipients were acknowledged in a ceremony on 26 November 2008.
Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Achievement
Congratulations to the following recipients -
- Professor Rakesh Kumar, School of Medical Sciences
- Professor David Cooper, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Dean’s List
Congratulations to the following for receiving a place on the Dean's List:
Applicant | School/Centre | Nominator |
| Weng Ng | SWSCS - Liverpool Hospital | Professor Michael Barton |
| Arun Krishnan | POW Clinical School | Associate Professor Matthew Kiernan |
| Anne Poljak | SOMS | Professor Perminder Sachdev
Associate Professor George Smythe |
| Nicola Newton | SPHCM (NDARC) | Professor Maree Teeson |
| Alexander Hoare | NCHECR | Dr David Wilson |
| Christine Y. Lu | SOMS/St Vincent's Clinical School | Professor Richard O. Day |
| Yiquan Chen | SOMS | Dr Gilles Guillemin |
| Brahmaputra Marjadi | SPHCM | Associate Professor Mary-Louise McLaws |
| Cristan Herbert | SOMS | Professor Rakesh Kumar |
| Nicole Tan | CVR | Professor Levon Khachigian |
| Shafqt Inam | CVR | Professor Levon Khachigian |
| Yewon Chung | SWSCS | Professor Rick Day |
| Helen Wu | Psychiatry/Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre | Professor Henry Brodaty |
| Gerald Fogarty | St Vincent's Clinical School | Associate Professor Gerard Carroll, Rural Clinical School |
| Bill Giannakopoulos | St George Clinical School | Professor Steven A Kirilis |
| Kristine Malabanan | CVR | Professor Levon Khachigian |
| Bronwyn Jeremy | Rural Clinical School – Port Macquarie | Professor Louis Pilotto – Professor Peter Reed |
| Adam Honeybrook | Rural Clinical School – Port Macquarie | Professor Louis Pilotto – Professor Peter Reed |
| Yun Ju Christine Song | SOMS | Associate Professor Pascal Carrive |
| Cristina Kim | SOMS | Dr Gila Moalem-Taylor |
| Angela Dawson | SPHCM | Dr Chris Hughes
Professor Raina MacIntyre |
| Sarah Cruikshank | SOMS | Professor Michelle Haber, CCIA |
| Waridibo Allison | NCHECR / SPHCM | Professor John Kaldor |
| Sarah Sasson | NCHECR/St Vincent's Clinical School | Associate Professor Anthony Kelleher |
| Kai Brown | NCHECR | Associate Professor Anthony Kelleher |
| Estella Sanchez-Guerrero | CVR | Professor Levon Khachigian |
| Fernando Santiago | CVR | Professor Levon Khachigian |
| Ming-Han Hugo Lee | St Vincent's Clinical School | Professor Richard Day |
Successful ARC Discovery Project Applications
13 November 2008
NHMRC Program Grants and Fellowships announced
10 November 2008
Congratulations to UNSW Medicine staff who received the following -
NHMRC Program Grant
Program Grant of $8.4 million
CIA: Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite
NHMRC Practitioner Fellowships
Prof Basil Donovan, PF 2
NHMRC Research Fellowships
A/Prof Lynne Bilston, SRF B
Dr Katharina Gaus, SRF A
Prof Andrew Grulich, PRF
Prof John Kaldor, SPRF
A/Prof Maria Kavallaris, SRF A
A/Prof Richard Lock, SRF A
A/Prof Lisa Maher, SRF A
2009 Goldstar Awards
Congratulations to the UNSW Medicine recipients of the 2009 Goldstar Awards.
The Faculty of Medicine received the most awards this year, with a total of $720,000, closely followed by the Faculty of Science.
A total of fifty-three Goldstar grants were awarded to UNSW researchers who just missed out on an ARC or NHMRC grant in the latest funding rounds.