Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department of Physiology

Current Successful Grants

Delbridge, Curl, Wendt : Myocardial effects of estrogen withdrawal and replacement: cardiomyocyte functional investigations. $120,000

Delbridge, Widdop : Shaping the heart in early development - new insights into cellular modelling processes. 2006 $85,000, 2007 $65,000, 2008 $65,000

Lynch, Plant : Modulating the molecular and cellular physiology of ageing skeletal muscle. 2006 $93,000, 2007 $83,000, 2008 $83,0000

Delbridge, Ritchie, Morris : Dietary fructose & diabetes: Double jeopardy for the heart. $45,000.

McConell: Does an acute bout of exercise activate skeletal muscle mitochondrial biogenesis and GLUT-4 expression normally in people with type 2 diabetes? $45,000.

Owens, Wlodek, Jeffrey Robinson, Caroline Crowther: Maternal calcium supplementation and prevention of diabetes in offspring born small. $45,000.

Wlodek, Moritz, Tare : Perinatal programming of cardiovascular and renal diseases. $492,750

Wlodek : Perinatal and intergenerational influences on adult diabetes. $429,750

Delbridge, Pepe, McLennan, Pedrazzini : Dietary omega 3 lipid supplementation - a protective mechanism for the failing heart. $277,500

Bornstein, Sjovall : How bacterial toxins cause diarrhoea. $480,000

Scurrah : New statistical models for family data. $333,750

Barrett : Development of an Antisense Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease Circadian Technologies through Neuro Therapeutics Pty Ltd. $200,000

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