The Centre recently awarded 12 Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health Innovation Grants. The grants provided up to $50,000 to support researchers in the Centre to undertake innovative research projects to enable the generation of new preliminary data to support research outputs.
We congratulate the 12 Chief Investigators and their research teams who were successful in securing funding through this scheme and we look forward to seeing the outcomes of these short-term projects in the coming year.
Associate Professor Divya Mehta
Project Title: Using a unique epigenetics study design to dissect the comorbidity between PTSD and depression.
Prof Ken O’Byrne
Project Title: Dissecting the tissue dichotomy associated with response to immunotherapy from the checkmate-026 phase 3 lung cancer trial.
Dr Michael Gabbett
Project Title: The Role of Genomics in Newborn Screening
Dr Emma Bolderson
Project Title: Investigating DNA damage-induced Histone modifications
Dr Daniel Wallace
Project Title: Drug screening to identify new treatments for Wilson disease.
Dr Mark Adams
Project Title: Developing a precise approach to target PI3K‐mTOR signalling in therapy progressive solid malignancies.
Dr Neha Gandhi
Project Title: Tailoring structures using AI for modulating heparanase activity in mammographic density
A/Professor Larisa Haupt
Project Title: Heparan sulfate proteoglycan differential methylation in Alzheimer’s disease genes may mediate stem cell differentiation and neural lineage specification.
Professor Nathan Subramaniam
Project Title: The Genomics of Iron Disorders: Characterisation of a Novel Gene in Iron Regulation.
Dr Andrew Battle
Project Title: Electrophysiological characterisation of transient receptor protein (TRP) channel protein mutations in migraine disorders.
Dr Jatin Patel
Project Title: Targeting brain vasculature to improve long-term outcomes in foetal growth restricted newborns.
Dr Amila Suraweera
Project Title: Targeting genetic instability in non-small cell lung cancer