University of Adelaide researchers will share in more than $15 million dollars through the latest round of the National Health and Medical Research Council Ideas Grants.
The 10 research groups from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology received a total of $15,123,402.
Professor Anton Middelberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Adelaide, congratulated the recipients.
"The University of Adelaide has clearly defined industry engagement priorities in health, and a strategic commitment to tackling the grand challenge of improving health and wellbeing for the benefit of society," said Professor Middelberg.
"These NHMRC grants are further evidence of how University of Adelaide-led research will benefit people everywhere not just in Australia.
"From a novel approach to treating chronic ear infections and exploring the use of technology in the manufacturing of crowns, to maturing babies' pre-term lungs without damaging their brains or enhancing outcomes for young people with endometriosis, these grants will enable researchers to continue their world-leading work."
The researchers to receive grants includes:
Associate Professor Theresa Hickey, Adelaide Medical School, who received $1,414,094 for her work on rebalancing sex hormone signalling in the breast ecosystem to reduce cancer risk.
Dr Lisa Nicholas from the School of Biomedicine and Robinson Research Institute received $952,936 for her project, revealing the yolk sac as an essential source of insulin for fetal development.
Professor Lisa Butler, South Australian Immunogenetics Cancer Institute (SAiGENCI), was awarded $1,161,539 for her project using PRO-RUST therapy to trigger prostate cancer ferroptosis.
Dr Jodie Avery, Adelaide Medical School and Robinson Research Institute, was awarded $1,978,271 to enhance outcomes for young people with endometriosis through diagnostic delay reduction.
Dr Mohamed Saad, SAiGENCI, received $1,052,410 to examine the novel role of protease-driven ectodomain shedding in small cell lung cancer.
Dr Lachlan Moldenauer, School of Biomedicine and Robinson Research Institute, was awarded $1,652,561 to define clinical subtypes of recurrent miscarriage based on immune-metabolic dysfunction.
Associate Professor Kathryn Gatford, School of Biomedicine and Robinson Research Institute, received $2,308,299 to research ways to mature babies' preterm lungs without damaging their brains.
Dr Ling Yin, School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, was awarded $828,248 towards her research on adding bite to tooth-mimicking aesthetic multilayer zirconia crowns using emerging digital manufacturing and fracture mechanics techniques.
Dr David Sharkey, School of Biomedicine and Robinson Research Institute, received $1,781,257 for his research on sperm's novel role in human reproduction beyond fertilisation.
Professor Sarah Vreugde, Adelaide Medical School, received $1,993,782 for a novel precision medicine approach for chronic suppurative otitis media, a condition which causes persistent inflammation of the middle ear and a perforation of the eardrum.
