成人大片

Adelaide wins $24 million for medical research

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

The 成人大片 has secured more than $24 million in federal funding for research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of Australians.

In the latest round of funding from the (NHMRC) announced today, the 成人大片 has won more than 70% of the total funding provided to medical research in South Australia.

The new funding for the 成人大片 includes:

• 37 Project Grants for a total of more than $18.7 million;
  
• Eight Research Fellowships totalling $4.5 million;
  
• One Practitioner Fellowship of $415,500; and
  
• One Equipment Grant of $455,803.

"This is an outstanding result for the 成人大片, with research grants across a wide range of health disciplines - from the conception of life, to the management of health and wellbeing in childhood and adulthood," says the , Professor James McWha.

"Our research has a strong focus on the prevention and cure of diseases that affect millions of people worldwide, as well as the basic science required to learn more about how these diseases and conditions work.

"Today's announcement of the NHMRC grants consolidates Adelaide's place as the key medical research institution in South Australia, and one of the leaders in Australia in a number of fields," Professor McWha says.

The winning projects at the 成人大片 include:

• $1.46 million to Dr Jodie Dodd () - for a study aimed at limiting weight gain in overweight and obese women during pregnancy;
  
• $839,250 to Associate Professor Jane Mathias () - for a study looking at the structural and functional effects of traumatic brain injury, using state-of-the-art MRI techniques and cognitive tests;
  
• $454,875 to Associate Professor Robert Richards () - for a study into the function and contribution of certain genes in cancer cell biology.

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