Musculoskeletal Pain And Disability: Improving Outcomes Through Conservative Interventions
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$8,549,204.00
Summary
Musculoskeletal conditions (particularly back pain and osteoarthritis) are highly prevalent and have a major impact on health and well being of Australians. This Program aims to resolve the major priorities in the field: optimal methods to target the right treatment to the right person at the right time through our unique strategy to understand mechanisms and identify patient subgroups, and establish optimal methods to overcome barriers to translation of research to policy and practice.
Uncovering The Basis Of Inflammatory And Immunodeficiency Diseases
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$15,718,075.00
Summary
A world-class team from 3 institutions, spanning disciplines of clinical and experimental immunology, therapeutics, signalling and genetics, will identify how immune and inflammatory responses are controlled in both health and disease. The major outcomes of this work will be the generation of new knowledge, concepts and approaches to diagnose, prevent and treat the major human health problems of autoimmune diseases, inflammation, allergy and immunodeficiency.