{"id":6756,"date":"2020-06-21T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wahtn.org\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2020-06-21T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T06:30:15","slug":"nhmrc-mrff-investigator-grants-funding-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/2020\/06\/21\/nhmrc-mrff-investigator-grants-funding-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"NHMRC\/MRFF Investigator Grants funding outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, has announced details of funding for the National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Future Fund Investigator schemes. We would like to congratulate the following researchers on their successful applications:<\/p>\n<h3>NHMRC Investigator Grants<\/h3>\n<p>Duration: 5 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tipping the balance \u2013 improving response rates to cancer immunotherapy<\/strong><br \/>\nEmerging Leadership 2<br \/>\n<strong>Dr Willem Lesterhuis<\/strong>, Centre for Child Health Research\/Telethon Kids Institute<br \/>\nTotal Funded: $1,562,250.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improving patient outcomes in familial hypercholesterolaemia across the continuum of care<\/strong><br \/>\nEmerging Leadership 1<br \/>\n<strong>Dr Jing Pang<\/strong>, UWA Medical School<br \/>\nTotal Funded: $645,205.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reducing global mortality and severity of disease in newborn infants through innovation and holistic interventions<\/strong><br \/>\nLeadership 2<br \/>\n<strong>Professor Jane Pillow<\/strong>, School of Human Sciences<br \/>\nTotal Funded: $2,060,520.00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>MRFF Investigator Grants<\/h3>\n<p>Duration: 5 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Better penicillin, better hearts: improving secondary prevention of rheumatic heart disease<\/strong><br \/>\nEmerging Leadership 2<br \/>\n<strong>Doctor Laurens Manning<\/strong>, Centre for Child Health Research\/Telethon Kids Institute<br \/>\nTotal Funded: $1,281,125.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preventing bronchiectasis in Indigenous people<\/strong><br \/>\nEmerging Leadership 2<br \/>\n<strong>Doctor Andre Schultz<\/strong>, Centre for Child Health Research\/Telethon Kids Institute<br \/>\nTotal Funded: $1,131,125.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP, has announced details of funding for the National Health and Medical Research Council and Medical Research Future Fund Investigator schemes. We would like to congratulate the following researchers on their successful applications: NHMRC Investigator Grants Duration: 5 years Tipping the balance \u2013 improving response rates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old-website.retprogram.org\/wahtn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}