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2005 AUPGSA Department of the year (pdf 220kB)

Grants awarded recently:

• NHMRC Project Awards 2005 - Prof White, A/Prof Bell & Prof Somogyi - "A trial of therapeutic drug monitoring in methadone maintenance treatment" [award of $178,000/year for 3 years]
• NHMRC Project Awards 2005 - Dr Irvine - "The effects of MDMA in Humans" [award of $173,650/year for 2 years]
• NHMRC Equipment Grant 2004 - Somogyi, White, Irvine, Sallustio: Refrigerated Benchtop Centrifuge $10000 + $3000 contibution from Faculty of Health Sciences
• NHMRC Equipment Grant 2004 - Owens, Robertson, Thompson, Nottle, Kennaway, Roberts, Russell, Lane, Gatford, Robinson, Saint, Coulter, Somogyi: 2 x Real Time PCR Systems $97000
• NHMRC Project Awards 2004 - Professor AA Somogyi (CI) & Dr TC Cox - "Mu opioid receptor polymorphisms and variability in opioid actions", [award of $78,500/year for 3 years]
• NHMRC Equipment Grant 2003 - Professor AA Somogyi, Professor J White, Dr P Burcham, Dr R Upton, Dr J Coller, Dr B Sallustio, Dr R Irvine & Dr A Humpage; Purchase of LCMS (Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer), [$109,000 NHMRC, $59,500 Faculty conribution & $41,500 Departmental contribution].
• NHMRC Equipment Grant 2004 - CI: Professor AA Somogyi; Purchase of Sanyo -80C Freezer, [$9,000 NHMRC & $4,500 Faculty contribution].
• NHMRC Equipment Grant 2004 - CI: Dr J Coller, purchase of Thermal Cycler, [$5,000 NHMRC & $2,000 Faculty contribution].

Visitors:

Awards & Prizes: - congratulations to

• December 2006 - Mr Glynn Morrish (PhD student) was awarded the Peter Meffin Drug Transporters, Metabolism & Pharmacokinetics Prize for poster at ASCEPT 2006.
• December 2006 - Ms Emily Jaehne (PhD student) was awarded the RMIT Toxicology Prize for poster at ASCEPT 2006.
• December 2006 - Ms Eloise Gelston honourable mention for ASCEPT poster 2006.
• December 2006 - Mr Johnny Licari honourable mention for ASCEPT poster 2006.
• May 2005 - Mr Glynn Morrish (PhD student) was awarded a Faculty of Health Sciences Postgraduate Travelling Fellowships of $1750 to attend the inaugural PharmSciFair Conference in Nice, France June 12-17 and to present his work at the University of Sheffield, UK, University of Liverpool, UK and Uppsala University, Sweden.
• April 2005 - Mr Justin Hay (PhD student) was awarded a Faculty of Health Sciences Postgraduate Travelling Fellowships of $1500 to attend the CPDD 67th Annual Scientific Meeting, Orlando, Florida June 18th-23rd June 2005

• None at the moment