Increase Australias capacity for outstanding health and medical research at the highest competitive level internationally

提高澳大利亚在国际最高竞争水平上进行杰出健康和医学研究的能力

• 批准号: nhmrc : 466668
• 负责人: Prof John Hopper
• 金额: $ 266.72万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: NHMRC Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/increase-australias-capacity-level-internationally/115337
• 关键词: Increase; Australias; capacity; outstanding; health

This Fellowship aims to increase Australia’s capacity for outstanding health and medical research at the highest competitive level internationally by utilising to their full potential the strategically planned population-based research resources I have already established. We have established state of the art protocols for collecting family data, and following up large cohorts of families. We are now in a superb position to rapidly translate genetic findings (ours and others) into clinical and public health programs and evaluate their impacts. This Fellowship should encourage high calibre Australian researchers to continue their work in Australia. It will give the resources in terms of people and research funds to develop to its full potential the population resource that I have built up over the last two decades. Funding will strengthen the position of Australian family and twin study resources within the international network so as to further enhance collaborations, knowledge transfer, and permit us to continue to demonstrate leadership. Continued funding of key personnel and the opportunity to recruit the best new talent through offering attractive positions, and funding to conduct our own genetic and molecular analyses rather than handing the material over to others, are essential for us to maintain and enhance the reputation in the highly competitive areas of cancer genetics. That is, we intend to demonstrate that Australia is the leader in the new discipline of MEGA Epidemiology. A major aim of this Fellowship is to use our research findings to “make a difference” to the health and well-being of Australians. This will be achieved by continuing to widen our perspective to include qualitative research techniques in trying to find out what are the issues impacting on the public – and the clinicians and bureaucrats – in decision making around the possibilities and risks being raised by new genetic findings.

该奖学金旨在通过充分利用我已经建立的战略规划的基于人口的研究资源的潜力，提高澳大利亚在国际最高竞争水平上进行杰出健康和医学研究的能力。我们建立了最先进的协议来收集家庭数据并跟踪大量家庭。我们现在处于有利位置，可以快速将遗传发现（我们的和其他人的）转化为临床和公共卫生计划并评估其影响。该奖学金应鼓励高素质的澳大利亚研究人员继续在澳大利亚开展工作。它将提供人力和研究资金方面的资源，以充分开发我在过去二十年中积累的人口资源的潜力。资金将加强澳大利亚家庭和双胞胎研究资源在国际网络中的地位，从而进一步加强合作、知识转移，并使我们能够继续展现领导力。持续为关键人员提供资金、通过提供有吸引力的职位来招募最优秀的新人才的机会、以及为我们自己进行遗传和分子分析而不是将材料交给他人提供资金，对于我们在竞争激烈的癌症遗传学领域保持和提高声誉至关重要。也就是说，我们打算证明澳大利亚是 MEGA 流行病学这一新学科的领导者。该奖学金的主要目标是利用我们的研究成果来“改变”澳大利亚人的健康和福祉。这将通过继续拓宽我们的视野来实现，包括定性研究技术，试图找出影响公众以及临床医生和官僚的问题，以围绕新的基因发现所带来的可能性和风险进行决策。