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MEDIA, NEWS & EVENTSHearty congratulations
23 November 2004
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The National Heart Foundation has awarded UNSW academics eight of the fourteen NSW research awards announced today, six of them to the Centre for Vascular Research (CVR).
UNSW won six of the ten grant-in-aid awards and two of the four Fellowships awarded for 2005. NHMRC Research Officer Dr Juliana Kwok was named as one of the highest-ranked researchers in the funding round, winning the John Shaw Postdoctoral Fellowship for her proposed study into stem cells with a view to the regeneration of tissue in heart disease. Dr Katharina Gaus was awarded both a grant-in-aid and a Career Development Research Fellowship. Both are from the CVR.
Other recipients include Dr Thomas Grewal of the Centre for Immunology and Professor Michael Hill of the School of Medical Sciences, and Professors Philip Hogg and Roland Stocker and Dr Brett Garner, all from the CVR.
The total funding for the six UNSW grants-in-aid is $717,712 over two years.
Head of the School of Medical Sciences, Professor Denis Wakefield, said today that these grants were particularly gratifying as they indicated the depth and strength of the research in this area, especially at the Centre for Vascular Research. "Grants such as these are vital for the continuation of this groundbreaking work," he said.
The successful grant-in-aid projects are:
Dr Katharina Gaus: Lipid raft structure-function relationships in endothelial cells. Dr Thomas Grewal: HDL-induced activation of the Ras/MAPK pathway in atherosclerosis. Professor Michael Hill: Effect of diabetes on the microcirculatory actions of modified lipoproteins: vasoprotective effects of HDL. Professor Philip Hogg: Control of von Willebrand factor haemostatic activity by myeloperoxidase-derived oxidants. Professor Roland Stocker: Heme oxygenase-1 as a general target for pharmacotherapy against atherosclerotic vascular disease. Dr Brett Garner: A novel cholesterol efflux accelerator as an anti-atherosclerotic in Apo-E deficient mice.
The fellowships awarded were:
Dr Juliana Kwok: The role of transcription factors, in particular, the GATA-4/FOG2/FHL-2 complex, in transcriptional regulation of cardiac gene expression and cardiac development. Dr Katharina Gaus: Structure and function of lipid rafts in sterol-loaded macrophages during cholesterol efflux and chemotaxis.
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