Over $67 million has been awarded to 36 Monash researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences by the Australian Government to pursue health and medical research.
Announced by The Hon. Mark Butler MP, Federal Minister of Health and Aged Care, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants support the highest-performing researchers from all career stages to conduct research across the four pillars - biomedical, clinical, public health and health services. They create opportunities for researchers to establish their own research programs, form research collaborations and foster innovative and creative research.
Monash successfully secured a $21 million increase from its 2024 NHMRC Investigator Grants funding results. Six applications received over $3 million, with funding dedicated to projects tackling a range of issues including enhancing reproductive health and creating pathways to vision. Reflecting the diversity of our research cohort, 18 of Monash's successful applications were led by female Principal Chief Investigators.
"Monash researchers are at the very forefront of addressing medical and health challenges and these NHMRC Investigator grants will lead to further critical breakthroughs that will improve the lives of communities here and around the world. My warmest congratulations to all 36 awardees," said Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) and Senior Vice President, Professor Mike Ryan.
See the full list of recipients below:
| Project Title | Chief Investigator | Faculty |
| Uncovering the molecular mechanisms associated with exercise to develop therapies to treat obesity-related diseases | Mark Febbraio | Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Pathways to vision following lesions of the primary visual cortex | Marcello Rosa | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Adaptive Platform Trials: Expanding impact | Steve Webb | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| A more integrated, responsive and sustainable learning musculoskeletal health system | Rachelle Buchbinder | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Long-acting therapies to treat hypertension and organ injury | Kate Denton | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Enhancing Reproductive Health by New Evidence-synthesis Methods based on Trustworthiness Assessment | Ben W. Mol | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Identification, Validation and Therapy of Autoinflammatory Diseases | Seth Masters | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Evidence to Impact: Solutions for Climate-Sensitive Health Challenges | Karin Leder | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Transforming transfusion research to deliver better outcomes for patients and the community | Erica Wood | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Advancing non-drug treatments to improve lung health | Anne Holland | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Prevention of cardiometabolic-related disease in women of reproductive age and beyond – risk prediction, screening and precision lifestyle approaches | Lisa Moran | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Going the last mile to end HIV transmission in Australia: ensuring no one is left behind | Jason Ong | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Harnessing protein allostery to accelerate drug discovery | David Thal | Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| New Hormone Treatments for Women with Depression Across the Life Cycle | Jayashri Kulkarni | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| What determines the longevity of antibody production after infection or vaccination? | David Tarlinton | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Improving outcomes for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus | Eric Morand | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| In situ studies of the immune synapse | James Whisstock | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Allosteric modulation of muscarinic receptors for the treatment of neurocognitive deficits | Arthur Christopoulos | Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Guiding and delivering maternity healthcare that is free of weight stigma | Briony Hill | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Advancing the diagnosis and management of primary aldosteronism, a common but neglected cause of hypertension | Jun Yang | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Cell therapies for the injured perinatal brain | Courtney McDonald | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Improving the quality of evidence in nutrition during recovery from critical illness | Emma Ridley | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Sleep after Cancer: Scalable, Precision, and Personalised Treatment of Insomnia | Joshua Wiley | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Molecular innovations to decode tauopathies at the nanoscale | Amandeep Kaur | Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Unlocking the therapeutic potential of anti-inflammatory mesenchymal stromal cells through a refined mode of action | Andrew Freeman | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Transforming Epilepsy Management through Evidence-Driven Approaches | Emma Foster | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Harnessing Precision Medicine to Combat Infections in Transplant Recipients | Bradley Gardiner | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Improving access to postpartum contraception through a midwifery model of care | Jessica Botfield | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Development of a novel cancer immunotherapy | Nicole Campbell | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Antecedents and lifelong consequences of perinatal brain injuries | Claire Kelly | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Natural Killer T cells to treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease | Praveena Thirunavukkarasu | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Innovating bacteriophage diagnostics and therapy to combat antimicrobial resistance: A cell-free synthetic biology approach | Sue Chin Nang | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Climate change, bushfire smoke, and human health: multi-country and multi-omics approach | Rongbin Xu | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Artificial intelligence-enabled quantitative atherosclerosis imaging by computed tomography to guide personalised management of coronary artery disease: a randomised clinical trial | Andrew Lin | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Targeting the bi-directional relationship between diet and microbes to optimise pouch health | Chu (CK) Yao | Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences |
| Structural approaches to assist the development of selective antagonists of adrenomedullin receptors | Jianjun Cao | Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences |
