Categories
	Cooperative Clinical Trials Infrastructure Grants
	Research Equipment Grants
	Research Infrastructure Grants
	Research Scholar Awards
	Clinical Conference Grants
	Education Scholarships
	Clinical Training Fellowships
	NSW Registrar Advanced Trainee Program
	Clinical Study Grants

Successful Grants

Round 2 2009

Full details of successful grants are available here.

Research Grants

Awarded: $14,630,488. Funding Commencing 1 July 2009.

Cooperative Clinical Trials Infrastructure Grants
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution	Amount Awarded
09/CIG/1-04	Prof	John	Simes	Development and operational support for AGITG and ANZGOG through the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre: A NSW-led initiative.	University of Sydney	$1,745,788
09/CIG/1-05	Dr	Martin	Stockler	Development and operational support for ALTG, ANZUP and COGNO through the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre: A NSW-led initiative.	University of Sydney	$925,917
09/CIG/1-02	A/Prof	Val	Gebski	Biostatistics, quality assurance and data systems for Cancer Trial Groups activities based at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre	University of Sydney	$1,757,469
09/CIG/1-01	Dr	Meera	Agar	NSW Palliative Care Clinical trials Collaborative Research Group	University of New South Wales	$528,507
09/CIG/1-03	Dr	Geoff	McCowage	New mechanisms to facilitate collaborative efforts for paediatric cancer clinical trials.	The Children`s Hospital at Westmead	$697,387
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Research Equipment Grants
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution	Amount Awarded
09/REG/1-03	A/Prof	Katharina	Gaus	Molecular microscopy for cancer cell biology	University of New South Wales	$500,000
09/REG/1-02	A/Prof	Barbara	Fazekas de St Groth	Next generation high speed cell sorter for cytometry and imaging facility	University of Sydney	$760,000
09/REG/1-08	Prof	Phillip	Robinson	A superior mass spectrometry system for ultra-sensitive cancer phosphoproteomics	Children’s Medical Research Institute	$979,371
09/REG/1-07	Prof	Des	Richardson	PALM Microbeam Laser Microdissection (LM) Microscope for the Multi-User Sydney Cancer Gene Expression Facility	University of Sydney	$632,578
09/REG/1-06	Dr	Mark	Raftery	Orbitrap XL mass spectrometer with Electron Transfer Dissociation and multidimensional LC for Cancer proteomics and protein phosphorylation research projects.	University of New South Wales	$952,471
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Research Infrastructure Grants
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution	Amount Awarded
09/RIG/1-10	Prof	Roger	Reddel	CellBank Australia	Children’s Medical Research Institute	$660,000
09/RIG/1-08	Dr	Peter	O`Brien	Delivering improvements in cancer treatment through high quality cooperative group clinical trials. Trans Tasman Radiation Oncology Group Ltd - Infrastructure	TROG Cancer Research	$657,000
09/RIG/1-19	Prof	Christine	Clarke	Breast Cancer Tissue Bank - data collection and management infrastructure.	University of Sydney	$450,000
09/RIG/1-14	Prof	Mathew	Vadas	Manager  Imaging and Cytometry  and Imaging Specialist for expanded Centenary Institute flow and imaging facility	University of Sydney	$330,000
09/RIG/1-02	Dr	Andrew	Biankin	Primary Xenografts of Extensively Characterised Human Pancreatic Cancer	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$330,000
09/RIG/1-03	Dr	Warren	Kaplan	Infrastructure Support for the ACRF Genomics Bioinformatics Facility	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$330,000
09/RIG/1-18	A/Prof	Susan	Clark	Continuing infrastructure support for the ACRF Genomics Facility	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$330,000
09/RIG/1-22	Prof	Michelle	Haber	Highly skilled staff to manage and operate a world-class high-throughput chemical small molecule library drug discovery centre	University of New South Wales	$330,000
09/RIG/1-21	Prof	John	Forbes	Provision of non-physical infrastructure support to enhance the breast cancer clinical trials research activities of the ANZ BCTG and it's ability to build productive research collaborations.	University of Newcastle	$330,000
09/RIG/1-13	Prof	Phyllis	Butow	The Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group: infrastructure to support operational activity and facility management to further psychosocial research and quality of life studies in clinical trials.	University of Sydney	$330,000
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Research Scholar Awards
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution	Amount Awarded
09/RSA/1-13	Ms	Thi Thu Cuc	Bach	Understanding Focal Adhesion Dynamics in Cell Migration	The Children`s Hospital at Westmead	$50,000
09/RSA/1-20	Mr	Yong(Brian)	Lee	Characterisation of signalling pathways associated with disease progression and therapeutic resistance in prostate cancer.	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$62,500
09/RSA/1-10	Mr	Brian Stewart	Gloss	Identification of DNA Methylation Markers for Ovarian Cancer Detection.	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$37,500
09/RSA/1-47	Miss	Teresa	Bonello	Developing tropomyosin targeting chemotherapeutics for the treatment of neuroblastoma and melanoma.	University of New South Wales	$60,500
09/RSA/1-12	Dr	Carole Abigail	Harris	Targeted Cancer Therapies: Their use, effectiveness and cost effectiveness in real world clinical practice	University of New South Wales	$62,500
09/RSA/1-35	Mr	Saul	Bert	Mechanism of Long Range Epigenetic Deregulation in Cancer	University of New South Wales	$62,500
09/RSA/1-38	Dr	Josh	Stern	Recruitment of human telomerase to telomeres	University of Sydney	$37,500
09/RSA/1-01	Dr	Sam	Al-Sohaily	Biomarkers of prognosis and response to therapy in rectal cancer	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$37,500
09/RSA/1-07	Mr	Kip	Dudgeon	Repertoires of human antibody domains	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$37,500
09/RSA/1-11	Miss	Candice	Grzelak	Role of the hepatic Hedgehog pathway in injury and hepatocellular carcinoma	Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology	$62,500
09/RSA/1-22	Miss	Jia (Jenny)	Liu	Relationship between folate coenzyme distribution and aberrant DNA methylation in colorectal cancer	University of New South Wales	$62,500
09/RSA/1-44	Mr	Tetsuo	Yamagishi	Development of Novel Chemotherapeutics for the Treatment of Leukaemia that Overcome Drug Resistance	University of Sydney	$37,500
09/RSA/1-06	Dr	Rachel	Dear (nee Shaw)	The use of clinical trial registries to develop and evaluate a web site that informs patients about cancer clinical trials and facilitates their decision making	University of Sydney	$32,500
09/RSA/1-52	Ms	Nethia	Mohana Kumaran	Apoptosis pathways in the drug resistance and pathogenesis of melanoma	Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology	$62,500
09/RSA/1-29	Mr	Mitchell	O'Connell	Towards designer RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) as novel cancer biology probes and therapeutic agents	University of Sydney	$62,500
09/RSA/1-34	Ms	Sarah	Randall	Biomarkers for personalising colorectal cancer (CRC) chemotherapy	Macquarie University	$62,500
09/RSA/1-23	Mr	Warwick	Locke	Epigenetic Nanoscaled Biosensors for Advanced Breast Cancer Detection	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$62,500
09/RSA/1-26	Ms	Michelle Frances	Maritz	Molecular and functional consequences of directly targeting telomerase components in pre-malignant and cancerous cells	University of New South Wales	$61,500
09/RSA/1-43	Miss	Vivian	Turner	The role of TRAF2, TRAF3 and cIAPs in multiple myeloma	Garvan Institute of Medical Research	$62,500
09/RSA/1-18	Dr	Belinda	Kiely	Estimating Survival Duration and Communication of Prognostic Uncertainty in Patients with Incurable Cancer	University of Sydney	$57,000
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Cancer Services and Education Grants

Awarded: $1,703,297. Funding Commencing 1 July 2009.

CLINICAL CONFERENCE GRANTS
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution	Amount Awarded
09/TRG/1-01	Ms	Catherine	Adams	IPOS - 11th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology. Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Psycho-Oncology: Interaction and Integration	Hunter New England Area Health Service	$5,000
09/TRG/1-05	Dr	Sharlyn	Kang	13th World Conference on Lung Cancer 2009	South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service	$5,000
09/TRG/1-09	Mr	Vinod Kumar	Nelson	7th International Conference on Luminescent Detectors and Transformers of Ionising Radiation.	Sydney South West Area Health Service	$4,423
09/TRG/1-02	Ms	Jennifer	Cohen	41st Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology	South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service	$5,000
09/TRG/1-06	Miss	Jessica	Koehler	KConFab Familial Aspects of cancer: Research and Practice	South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service	$1,324
09/TRG/1-07	Mrs	Jane	Maher	22nd International Congress of Lymphology	Sydney South West Area Health Service	$1,175
09/TRG/1-03	Ms	Kahren	White	Together! International Cultural Connections for Quality at the End of Life. Combining the10th Australian Palliative Care Conference and the 8th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference	South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service	$2,000
09/TRG/1-04	Ms	Joanne	Cooper	Together 2009 The International conference Cultural Connections for Quality Care at the End of Life.Combining the 10th Australian Palliative Care Conference the 8th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference.	North Coast AHS	$2,000
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EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution
09/EDS/1-09	Ms	Janet	Tyler	Application for educational scholarhip for a cancer genetic counsellor to undertake a Masters of Public Health	South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service	$19,440
09/EDS/1-05	Mrs	Vicky	Papanikolaou (nee Giakoumidis)	Application for Education Scholarship Requesting Assistance with Funding of Postgraduate study: Masters in Social Work Counselling (University of New South Wales).	South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service	$15,360
09/EDS/1-07	Ms	Pharmila	Sapkota	Education Scholarship Application For Master Degree in Cancer Nursing	Sydney South West Area Health Service	$13,920
09/EDS/1-10	Ms	Ling	Wu	Graduate Certificate of Cancer Nursing at NSW College of Nursing	Sydney Adventist Hospital	$3,075
09/EDS/1-03	Ms	Julie	Edwards	Master of Nursing - Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care	Sydney Adventist Hospital	$13,590
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CLINICAL TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution
09/CLF/1-07	Dr	Sam Lung Sang	Yuen	Identification of microRNA regulatory targets and the relationship between microRNA and mRNA expression levels in Acute promyelocytic leukaemia.	Sydney South West Area Health Service	$198,486
09/CLF/1-03	Dr	Angela	Chou	Fellowship in endocrine pathology with an emphasis on cancer diagnosis and research into the detection of occult parathyroid cancer and HPT-JT syndrome related parathyroid tumours	North Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service	$182,241
09/CLF/1-04	Dr	Meredith	Johnston	Development of an Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) Program in the management of Head and Neck Cancer that can be implemented across NSW Radiation Oncology Treatment Centres (ROTC)	North Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service	$168,020
09/CLF/1-08	Dr	Susan	Tiley	A training program in Cancer Genetics with a) review of genetic testing for bowel cancer families b) expansion of rural telehealth services	Sydney West Area Health Service	$185,740
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NSW REGISTRAR ADVANCED TRAINEE PROGRAM
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution
09/RGS/1-10	Dr	Tom	Shakespeare	An accreditated Radiation Oncology advanced training registrar for the North Coast Cancer Institute - Joh Hunter Hospital (Newcastle) traing collaboration	North Coast AHS	$138,212
09/RGS/1-08	A/Prof	Paul	Craft	Rural Advanced Trainee in Medical Oncology for SE NSW Based at The Canberra Hospital	Greater Southern AHS	$133,044
09/RGS/1-05	Prof	C Soon	Lee	Analysis for differentially expressed proteins in radiation sensitive and resistant rectal cancer cells.	Sydney South West Area Health Service	$132,211
09/RGS/1-09	Dr	Phillip	Good	Application for ongoing funding for NSW Cancer Institute Advanced Trainee in Palliative Medicine at the Calvary Mater Newcastle	Hunter New England Area Health Service	$138,212
09/RGS/1-01	Dr	Ehtesham	Abdi	Advance Trainee in Medical Oncology The Tweed Cancer Care Centre	North Coast Area Health Service	$149,313
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CLINICAL STUDY GRANTS
Grant ID	CI Title	CI First Name	CI Surname	Title	Administering Institution
09/INS/1-01	Dr	Paul	Reich	A site visit at the Stanford School of Medicine combined with attendance at the 2009 AAPM Summer School on clinical dosimetry measurements in radiotherapy.	North Coast AHS	$8,444

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