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$2.74 million for health, environment and industry

Tuesday, 25 September 2007

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide has won $2.74 million for new collaborative research projects ranging from forecasting the effects of climate change on marine habitats to exploring the potentially beneficial biological functions of vitamin D.

Nine ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide-led projects with industry and government have been awarded funding under the scheme announced by Federal Education, Science and Training Minister the Hon. Julie Bishop. This is 68% of the total funding granted for South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n projects.

"This is an excellent result for ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide and for South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ with a success rate of 82% in this first round of ARC Linkage grants for 2008," said Pro Vice-Chancellor Research Operations Professor Richard Russell.

"This new funding is for research conducted in collaboration with industry and the business community and these projects have the potential for a huge impact on health, the environment and our marine, agricultural, horticultural and other industries."

The successful projects are:

• $76,881 to a team led by Dr Peng Bi, , for a study on migrant health in ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥
  
• $276,000 to researchers led by Associate Professor David Callen, , for research into the regulation of vitamin D metabolism which may open up new avenues for the development of preventative approaches and treatment of cancer
  
• $296,112 to a team led by Associate Professor Sean Connell, , for a project aimed at forecasting marine habitats under realistic scenarios of climate change
  
• $395,000 to Professor Alan Cooper, , for developing new methods to retrieve and analyse preserved DNA
  
• $454,232 to a team led by Dr Michael Gold, , for a study exploring the legal and ethical issues around linking data at national level
  
• $130,000 to Professor Graeme Hugo, , and others for investigating the processes that shape material culture diversity using a New Guinea dataset
  
• $248,752 to researchers led by Dr Mike McLaughlin, , to determine the effect of drought and rainfall patterns on the efficiency of fertiliser use by crops
  
• $550,000 to a research team led by Professor Gus Nathan, , for developing technology to reduce the emissions of fine particle pollutants
  
• $317,343 to a team led by Associate Professor Eileen Scott, , to investigate the control of fungal diseases of horticulture crops using milk components
  

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