Near Miss Grants 2008


NHMRC Projects
Internal Researchers	Faculty	Project_Title	$ Awarded
Tony Okely, Julie Steele, Ken Russell	Faculty of Education	Determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviours in young children. A prospective cohort study	$15,000
Robert Kapsa, Gordon Wallace, Simon Moulton	Faculty of Science	Myoregenerative polymers for remodelling of damaged and diseased muscle	$10,000
Marie Ranson	Faculty of Science	Deciphering the function and prognostic significance of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 2 in cancer	$10,000
Chao Deng, Xu-Feng Huang	Faculty of Health & Behavioural Science	The roles of the brain stem melanocortin and neuropeptide Y systems in the development of diet-induced obesity	$10,000
		SUBTOTAL	$45,000

Discovery Projects
Internal Researchers	Faculty	Project_Title	$ Awarded
Stephen Blanksby	Faculty of Science	New insights and applications from the gas phase chemistry of reactive oxygen species	$15,000
Elena Pereloma	Faculty of Engineering	Nanoscale Engineering of Advanced High Strength Steels	$15,000
Ian Brown, Lori Lockyer, Peter Caputi	Faculty of Education	Preparing Australians for a multiliterate world: a conceptual model and validated tool to measure of multiliteracies for middle school students	$8,000
Michael Donaldson, Richard Howson	Faculty of Arts	Contemporary Muslim Indonesian Masculinities in Australia	$8,000
Mark Dowton	Faculty of Science	Expanding the set of animal mitochondrial genes available for phylogenetic analysis: nuclear genes of ancient mitochondrial origin	$8,000
Long Nghiem	Faculty of Engineering	Optimising nanofiltration and reverse osmosis filtration processes for the production of high quality reclaimed water: membrane fouling and its effects on trace contaminant removal	$8,000
Farzad Safaei, Philip Ogunbona, Wanqing Li, Salim Bouzerdoum	Faculty of Informatics	Spectactive: 3D visual and aural scene creation for virtual spectators	$8,000
		SUBTOTAL	$70,000

		TOTAL (ARC Discovery & NHMRC)	$115,000