These collaborations represent an ongoing strategic investment by the Commonwealth Government to ensure that Australians remain at the forefront of international advances in health and medical research, and help maintain our status as a world leader in this area.
The Australian-European Union Collaborative Grants Program provides support to Australian researchers that are already part of a team that has been awarded funding from the European Union under its Sixth Framework program. While an international collaboration may be successful in winning an EU grant, non-EU researchers do not receive EU funding support for their contribution to the research. Researchers who have been awarded funding to join EU collaborations are:
- Associate Professor Nicholas Hayward from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, who will map the genes responsible for causing melanoma.
- Professor Peter Le Souef from the University of Western Australia, whose team will research immunity to malaria in infants.
- Professor John Bateman from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, who will research diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
- Professor Nicholas Hunt from the University of Sydney, who will join a project investigating complications of malaria in the brain and lungs.
- Dr Peter Lewis from the University of Newcastle, who will research the genetic regulation of bacteria.
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