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MSRA funded projects - started in 2009
PROJECT GRANTS
An Examination of Prospective Memory and Employment in MS
Dr Rhonda Brown, University of New England
Total Funding Awarded: $72,000
Duration: 2 years
Understanding the cellular response to oligodendrocyte death in the central nervous system
Dr Tobias D. Merson, Florey Neuroscience Institutes
Total Funding Awarded: $100,000
Duration: 2 years
Cognitive, behavioural and social skills in childhood-onset MS and childhood demyelination
Prof Vicki Anderson, University of Melbourne
Total Funding Awarded: $150,000
Duration: 2 years
Designing specific therapeutic agents for MS
Dr Judith Greer, University of Queensland
Total Funding Awarded: $300,000
Duration: 3 years
MS tissue proteomics
Dr Michael Barnett, University of Sydney
Total Funding Awarded: $278,000
Duration: 2 years
Identification of the cells responsible for nerve sheath repair in MS
Dr Alison Jennings, University of Western Australia
Total Funding Awarded: $210,000
Duration: 2 years
Analysis of myelination
Dr Simon Murray, University of Melbourne
Total Funding Awarded: $160,000
Duration: 2 years
How does pregnancy affect MS?
A/Prof Pamela McCombe, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Total Funding Awarded: $210,000
Duration: 3 years
INCUBATOR "SEEDING" GRANTS
Developing a new blood test for brain injury in MS patients
Dr Melissa Gresle, Florey Neuroscience Institutes
Total Funding Award: $26,000
Duration: 1 year
Manipulation of supportive brain cells to release factors that can treat MS
Dr Tomris Mustafa, Florey Neuroscience Institutes
Total Funding Award: $25,080
Duration: 1 year
FELLOWSHIPS
How do genetic changes in people with MS lead to the development of disease?
Dr Judith Field, Florey Neuroscience Institutes
Total Funding Award: $150,000
Duration: 2 years
Developing A Shared Decision Management Plan for the Optimal Management of Acute Optic Neuritis
Dr Celia Chen, Flinders University
Total Funding Awarded: $60, 000
Duration: 2 years
Genetics of MS
Dr Julia Morahan, University of Oxford
Total Funding Awarded: £150,000
Duration: 3 years
Muscle contractures in people with multiple sclerosis
Dr Phu Hoang, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Total Funding Awarded: $15,000
Duration: 1 year
SCHOLARSHIPS
Identifying protein markers of disease in MS
Laura Gianni, University of Melbourne
Total Funding Award: $78,000
Duration: 3 years
Identification of Genes showing Altered Expression in MS Brain and Blood Samples
Jason Mackenzie, Griffith University
Total Funding Award: $78,000
Duration: 3 years