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National Health & Medical Research Council (NH & MRC)

Successful Grant Proposals 2007

Investigators	Project Title	Department/School	Funding $AUS
Prof. J Camakaris; Prof. J Mercer	Functional copper deficiency models of Alzheimer's disease	Department of Genetics	$437,000
Dr. R Burke (Monash); Prof. J Camakaris	Copper Homeostasis and APP-induced Neurodegeneration in Drosophila	Department of Genetics	$366,750
Dr. D Newgreen (Murdoch Children's Research Institute); A/Prof. KA Landman	Biomathematical analysis of cell invasion: migration of neural crest sells to form the enteric nervous system	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	$432,000
A/Prof. U Grunert; Prof. P Martin	Neural network properties of the primate retina	Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences	$400,875
Prof. N McBrien; Dr. A Gentle	Therapeutic control of pathological myopia: Role of transforming growth factor-beta	Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences	$301,250
A/Prof. T Vidyasagar; Prof. A Goodwin	Functional interactions between primate cortical areas in tasks involving attention and short-term memory	Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences	$256,750
Dr. A Pask; Prof. M Renfree, A/Prof. G Shaw; Prof. R Behringer	Ovarian differentiation and sex reversal	Department of Zoology	$478,500