NHMRC awards $61 million to University of Melbourne researchers

An aerial view of the Parkville Biomedical Precinct.
The funding will support research at the University and partners in the Parkville precinct and beyond.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne and partner organisations have been awarded $61 million in funding from the latest NHMRC Investigator Grant round, announced last week by the Federal Minister for Health Mark Butler MP.

A total of 34 projects led by researchers in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and one project from the Faculty of Engineering and IT will focus on a range of health challenges, including chronic disease, mental health care, cancer, infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and health system access.

The funding will support research at the University and at partner organisations including Austin Health, the Doherty Institute, the Florey Institute, Orygen, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Funded projects include:

  • Professor Bruce Campbell, Department of Medicine and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Optimising stroke imaging and reperfusion therapies.
  • Dr Dominic Dwyer, Centre for Youth Mental Health and Orygen, Harnessing digital technologies to scale trauma-focussed mental healthcare.
  • Dr Phillipa Karoly, Department of Biomedical Engineering (FEIT), Stress in Epilepsy: Relating multiday cycles of seizure risk and the autonomic nervous system to deliver novel epilepsy management.
  • Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Strengthening evidence on harmful industries and their influence on public health policy.
  • Dr Brendan Nolan, Department of Medicine and Austin Health, Improving health outcomes for transgender women.
  • Professor Alicia Oshlack, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Transcriptomics at exquisite resolution.
  • Associate Professor Norelle Sherry, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Doherty Institute, Harnessing pathogen genomics to understand and control antimicrobial resistance.

You can view all outcomes from the 2024 Investigator Grant scheme on the NHMRC website.