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

该奖学金旨在通过充分利用我已经建立的战略规划的人口研究资源，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。我们已经建立了最先进的协议，收集家庭数据，并跟踪大的家庭队列。我们现在处于一个极好的位置，可以迅速将遗传学发现（我们的和其他人的）转化为临床和公共卫生项目，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工作。它将提供人力和研究资金方面的资源，以充分发挥我在过去20年中建立的人口资源的潜力。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，以进一步加强合作，知识转移，并使我们能够继续展示领导力。继续资助关键人员和通过提供有吸引力的职位招募最好的新人才的机会，以及资助进行我们自己的遗传和分子分析，而不是将材料交给他人，对于我们保持和提高癌症遗传学竞争激烈的领域的声誉至关重要。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。该奖学金的一个主要目的是利用我们的研究成果，“有所作为”，以澳大利亚人的健康和福祉。这将通过继续扩大我们的视野来实现，包括定性研究技术，试图找出影响公众的问题-以及临床医生和官僚-围绕新的遗传发现提出的可能性和风险做出决策。

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.