News and Events
CONGRATULATIONS – MORE NHMRC GRANT SUCCESS
Recent Achievements in Health Sciences Research
CHESM – Musculoskeletal and sports medicine team
- Kim Bennell has been awarded a 4 year ARC Future Fellowship commencing 2010
- ARC Linkage Grant (ASICS industry partner) “Influence of an innovative show design on lower limb joint loading during walking” 2009-2011 $374,000
- NHMRC Grant “Is physiotherapy beneficial for people with hip OA” 2010-2012 $607,488
- NHMRC Grant “Neuromuscular exercise: a novel treatment to reduce symptoms and joint load in medial knee OA” 2010-2012 $694,288
- NHMRC Grant “Young people with old knees: knee ligament reconstruction and early joint changes” 2010-2014 $747,000
- Andy Chien awarded an Early Career Researcher Grant of $40,000 for his project “Neuromuscular exercise – a novel treatment for patients with knee OA” and a $25,000 Start-up Grant from The Sir Robert Menzies Foundation for “Investigation of somatosensory dysfunctions in osteoarthritis”.
Professor Mary Galea and colleagues
- NHMRC Discovery Grant - Prof M Galea, Prof Robert Callister, A/Prof Robin Callister “Connectivity of regenerating axons following spinal cord injury”. $565,500
- ARC Discovery Grant – Dr D Oetomo, Prof O Khatib, Dr P Lee, Prof M Galea (in assoc with Dept of Mech. and Indust. Engineering) “Robotic gait assistive strategy for people with paraplegia: generating balanced and human-like gait on a bipedal system”. $352,000
Previous successful applications:
- Paul McCrory (CIA) together with Kim Bennell, Rana Hinman, Prassunna Reddy and Kay Crossley have won a very large $673,275 NHMRC Project grant to study Laser Acupuncture in knee pain – this is an outstanding result in a very competitive field.
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse Physiotherapy (POPPY) - $367,400 Prof Mary Galea, Dr Suzanne Hagen, Ms Helena Frawley, Ms Margaret Sherburn, Dr Patricia Neumann, Dr Jean Hay-Smith
- Home based rehabilitation to reduce falls and disability in Parkinson disease - $723,000 Prof Meg Morris, A/Pr Hylton Menz, Prof Nicholas Taylor, Dr Frances Huxham, Ms Jennifer Watts, Dr Clarissa Martin
- Training dual task performance during gait in Parkinson disease - $371,000
Dr Sandra Brauer, Prof Meg Morris, Prof Marjorie Woollacott - Patellofemoral arthritis: Efficacy of physiotherapy and understanding the role of joint stress - $592,100, Dr Kay Crossley, Dr Rana Hinman, Prof Marcus Pandy, Dr Anthony Schache, of Bill (Guglielmo) Vicenzino
Congratulations to all grant recipients.