National grant recipients

Congratulations to the following members and their colleagues who collectively were recently awarded over $3 million for their sleep-related applications via the NHMRC, Heart Foundation, HRC NZ and Lotteries Health Research NZ.

NHMRC Ideas Grants

Tracey Sletten, Shanthakumar Wilson Rajaratnam, Steven Lockley, Svetlana Postnova, Mark Howard, Elise R. Facer-Childs. (Monash University): Understanding the role of light exposure in individual differences in the circadian response to shift work

Juha Toyras, Philip Terrill, Timo Leppänen, Scott Sands, Simon Smith, Dimitri Perrin, Simon Joosten, (The University of Queensland): Deep learning and physiology based approach to derive and link obstructive sleep apnoea phenotypes and symptomatology

Sean Drummond, Victoria Risbrough (Monash University): Identifying a modifiable risk factor for PTSD: insomnia-related disruption of trauma recovery mechanisms 

Daniel Hoyer, Dan Abrams (University of Melbourne): Narcolepsy with cataplexy: a brain orexin replacement strategy

Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship

Camilla Hoyos (University of Sydney): Targeting the heart to optimise healthy brain ageing in different at risk populations across adulthood.

Health Research Council Activation Grants

Leigh Signal, Brownyn Sweeney, Mark Huthwaite, Clare Ladyman, Chris Cunningham, Hannah Mooney, Katie Sharkey, Bei Bei, Riz Firestone, Tanya Wright and Jane Fisher (Massey University): Intervening in sleep to improve perinatal mental health outcomes

Angela Campbell, Sally Baddock, Rachelle Love, Sarah Jane Paine (University of  Otago): Māori sleep health across the life span

Lotteries Health Research NZ

Dee Muller (Massey University): The impact of sleep on ethnic inequities in child and adolescent mental health (Postdoctoral Fellowship)  

Rosie Gibson (Massey University): Caring around the clock: Providing a framework for improving sleep health of family carers (project grant) 

2020 NHMRC Grant Announcements 

Congratulations to the following members and their colleagues who collectively were awarded over $4.6m for their sleep-related applications via these funding mechanisms:

Prof Sharon Naismith, University of Sydney: NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Initiative: REducing Sleep Apnoea for the PrEvention of Dementia (REShAPED): a multi-site feasibility RCT

Prof Lynne Bilston, University of New South Wales: NHMRC Investigator Grant: Biomechanical factors in health and disease

Dr Joshua Wiley, Monash University: NHMRC Investigator Grant: Optimising treatment to reduce sleep and depression symptoms in cancer: A personalised medicine approach

A/Prof Sean Cain, Monash University: NHMRC Ideas Grant: Circadian mechanisms for antidepressant medication treatment