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$7 million awarded for fellowships and scholarships

7 December 2005

Monash researchers have been awarded training fellowships, scholarships and enabling grants worth almost $7 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council funding.

Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Victorian College of Pharmacy were represented in the funding in which 19 Monash researchers received training fellowships, 11 received scholarships and one researcher received an enabling grant.

Associate Professor Rachelle Buchbinder, from the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, received the enabling grant, worth $1.25 million, to set up an Australian Rheumatology Association database.

Ms Lauren Ely (pictured) from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, who earlier this year received a Victorian Premier's Award for Medical Research, received a $312,428 CJ Martin (Overseas) Fellowship to study the structural basis of gamma-delta T-cell receptor recognition. These immune receptors help protect the body from infection and tumour growth.

Ms Ely will spend two years at Stanford University and will then return to complete the study at Monash.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Edwina Cornish congratulated the recipients.

"Monash staff are working at the forefront of medical research in a wide range of areas, and the breadth of funding received this round is indicative of the vast array of research being undertaken," Professor Cornish said.

"Monash has also been successful in attracting eight people to the university who have been awarded fellowships or scholarships in this round. It is great to have these new researchers joining the university."

Nine researchers are on the fellowships reserve list and may be awarded fellowships in coming months.