GRANTS FUNDED

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Professor Emad El-Omar	The MotherBabies Study	$10,000.00
A-Professor Peter Gonski	Empowering older, frail people to make end-of-life choices	$20,000.00
A-Professor Greg Davis	The P4 Study	$20,000.00
Professor Maria Craig	Characterising the population of viruses that influence outcomes of the pregnancy and infant health	$50,000.00
Professor Yong Li	Validation of extracellular vesicle protein biomarkers in blood for the personalised treatment decision of prostate cancer patients	$50,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Dr Bill Giannakopouulos	Murine and human studies on the role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus and the antiphospholipid syndrome to expedite studies on prophylaxis and treatment	$72,500.00
Dr Amanda Henry	The Microbiome in Pregnancy and Infancy, a comprehensive assessment of its composition, and its relationship to health and disease	$72,500.00
Dr Bill Giannakopouulos	Quantification of redox forms of plasma ApoJ, ApoH and PDI to identify at risk patients for Alzheimer’s disease.	$50,000.00
Dr Kevin Ni	A novel liquid biopsy assay of blood exosomal microRNA profiles to improve prostate cancer.	$46,000.00
Dr Georgina Hold	Facilitating Translational Research Studies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.	$50,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Prof Emad El-Omar	HOAM	$1,000,000.00
Prof Emad El-Omar	Mothers Babies	$1,000,000.00
Dr Nan Wu	Building Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Research Capacity – The St George and Sutherland IBD Project	$36,020.00
Dr Michal Szczesniak	Validation of SPECT/CT to assess airway clearance in chronic aspirators for a trial of Expiratory Muscle Strength Training (EMST) in reduction of radiation-related aspiration.	$35,730.00
Dr Jose Perdomo	The role of neutrophils in the pathology of immune thrombocytopenia	$49,554.40
Professor Marissa Lassere	The gut microbiome in inflammatory arthritis	$34,599.10
Dr Megan Gow	Does exposure to pre-eclampsia in utero contribute to cardiovascular disease risk and ageing in early childhood?	$49,907.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Dr Peter Wu	Implications of Oro-Pharyngeal dysbiosis in the genesis of head and neck cancer and risk of complications in patients undergoing chemoradiation.	$140,000.00
Professor Beng Chong	Role of microbiota dysbiosis in immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis	$155,000.00
Dr Bill Giannakopouulos	Murine and human studies on the role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus and the antiphospholipid syndrome to expedite studies on prophylaxis and treatment	$160,000.00
Dr Amanda Henry	The Microbiome in Pregnancy and Infancy, a comprehensive assessment of its composition, and its relationship to health and disease	$200,000.00
Professor Michael Grimm	The longitudinal course of inflammatory bowel disease: psychological, microbial, immune and inflammatory determinants	$200,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Prof John Myburgh (Trauma Unit – Govt)	Trauma body temperature control machine	$100,000.00
Dr Bill Giannakopoulos	Beta 2-glycoprotein 1: An important modulator of Gram-negative sepsis	$22,500.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Prof John Myburgh	Support of the Thermoregulation for Acute Brain Injury Program	$300,000.00
Prof John Myburgh (Trauma Unit – Govt)	Trauma body temperature control machine	$100,000.00
Dr Bill Giannakopoulos	Beta 2-glycoprotein 1: An important modulator of Gram-negative sepsis	$22,500.00
Dr Peter Wu	Pharyngeal and oesophageal compliance – the clinical utility of Endoluminal Functional Lumen Imaging Probe in managing dysphagia	$37,000.00
Prof Marissa Lassere	A comparative effectiveness randomised placebo controlled pilot trial of the management of acute lumbar radicular pain: evaluate route versus pharmacology of intervention, and feasibility in public hospital and community practice settings	$50,000.00
Dr Freda Passam	Functional disulphides of the platelet receptor alpha Iib beta 3 in health and disease	$50,000.00
Dr Fernando Roncolato	A pilot study of a randomaised control trial assessing the impact of a supervised exercise program on the quality of life of lymphoma patients treated with chemotherapy – the EXEL study	$20,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Assoc Prof Peter Gonski	Pulmonary Disease	$20,000.00
Assoc Prof Greg Davis	Postpartum P4 Study	$50,000.00
Prof Steve Krilis	Novel mechanisms of control of thrombosis and inflammation	$300,000.00
Prof Marissa Lasssere	Serial biomarker profiling for risk-stratification and disease monitoring in rheumatoid arthritis	$35,000.00
Dr Beng Chong	Development of a novel anti-platelet and anti-anticoagulant bifunctional molecule for targeted treatment of coronary artery disease	$50,000.00
Dr Fatima El-Assad	The role of βeta2-glyocoprotein-1 in cerebral malaria	$35,000.00
Dr Freda Passam	Control of thrombus formation by S-nitrosylation	$50,000.00
Dr Peter Wu	Clinical utility of Endoluminal Functional Imaging Probe in diagnosis and management of patients with eosinophilic oesophagitis	$20,000.00
Dr Kim-Chi Phan-Thien	Colonic motility in diverticular disease	$20,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
John Myburgh	Improving Outcomes For Patients With Trauma And Critical Illness -Local Research With A Global Impact	$50,000.00
Prof Steven Krilis	The role of beta 2 glycoprotein i in vascular health	$40,000.00
Dr Jingli Hao	Using proteomic approaches to identify novel biomarkers associated with prostate cancer radioresistance in in vivo animal models	$35,000.00
A/Prof Konstantin Yastrebov	Comparative Haemodynamic Assessment: InvaSive and Echocardiographic techniques	$25,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
John Myburgh	Improving Outcomes For Patients With Trauma And Critical Illness -Local Research With A Global Impact	$50,000.00
Dr Philip Choi	Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT): characterization of the pathogenic and non-pathogenic antibodies, and studies to improve laboratory diagnosis and treatment	$30,000.00
Prof Steven Krilis	The role of mast cell specific serine proteases in inflammatory bowel disease	$30,000.00
Dr. Freda Passam	Role of the thiol isomerase ERp5 in thrombus formation	$50,000.00
MS Suzanne Polis	What is the effect of a nurse directed model of outpatient care on health outcomes, quality of life and service delivery for patients diagnosed with advanced liver disease?	$20,000.00
Dr Amanda Henry	Evaluation of the myocardial performance index in ultrasonography of normal and complicated pregnancy	$20,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
John Myburgh	Improving Outcomes For Patients With Trauma And Critical Illness -Local Research With A Global Impact	$50,000.00
Dr Philip Choi	Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT): characterization of the pathogenic and non-pathogenic antibodies, and studies to improve laboratory diagnosis and treatment	$30,000.00
Dr James Weaver	Endothelial dysfunction and platelet activation in the setting of coronary disease	$33,000.00
Dr Aparna Menon (Padinjareveettil)	Does transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) enhance computerised cognitive remediation in patients with Schizophrenia? – A randomised controlled trial in a rehabilitatory setting	$17,000.00
Dr Nicholas Cordato	The impact of routine post-discharge evaluation medical evaluations of nursing home patients following acute hospital admission	$50,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Dr Philip Choi	Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT): characterization of the pathogenic and non-pathogenic antibodies, and studies to improve laboratory diagnosis and treatment	$30,000.00
Ms Annie Luo	Appendicitis alters the balance between regulatory and effector T cells in the colon	$20,000.00
A/Prof Yong Li	CD 44 and CD 147 in prostate cancer metastasis and drug resistance	$45,000.00
Dr Michal Szczesniak	Development and validation of novel fibre-optic strain sensors for evaluation of longitudinal shortening of the human oesophagus.	$50,000.00
Dr Bill Giannakopoulos	Analysis of the In Vivo modulatory role of Beta-2 Glycoprotein 1 on atheroma formation and apoptotic cell clearance in the lupus/autoimmune setting	$50,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
A/Prof Kate Curtis	The cost of major trauma in NSW: Linkage analysis and recommendations health service planning	$5,500.00
Dr Terrence Chua	Clinical Studies in Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancer	$5,000.00
Ms Anthea Reuss	Intermittent self-catheterisation: comparison of single use vs reuse of Nelaton catheters – health and cost implications	$10,000.00
Dr Chris Weatherall	The role of mast cells in innate immunity	$30,000.00
Dr Sharon Ong	Masked hypertension in chronic kidney disease, dialysis and renal transplant patients	$50,000.00
Dr Simon Liang	Characterisation of the anticancer effects of She-Xiang-Bao-Xin, a Chinese medicine on human leukaemic and prostate cancer cells	$20,000.00
Dr Peter Galettis	A quantitative assay for novel compounds that show promise as oral treatments for advanced prostate cancer	$20,000.00

Name	Title of project	Grant Awarded
Dr Bill Giannakopoulos	Investigations into the modulatory activity of B2GPI on coagulation in vitro and in vivo	$20,000.00
Dr Phil Dinning	Automated analysis of colonic manometry: creating diagnostic tool for patients with severe constipation	$40,000.00
Dr Manoj Saxena	Prospective cohort study of temperature management after traumatic brain injury	$20,000.00