Changing the world

It has been a busy start to the year for the Flinders community, including some outstanding achievements in recent weeks. Highlights include a new research award to date rock art;  a $125k rheumatology fellowship; and a multi-disciplinary training project to build NDIS capacity.

Associate Professor Mihir Wechalekar of the Department of Rheumatology has received the 2019 $125,000 Bruce Miller-Australian Rheumatology Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a project to improve outcomes for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis. This work will progress research towards understanding inflammatory processes and aims to identify new therapeutic targets, and gather preliminary data, for larger research grants to develop and test new therapies.

The win represents the second consecutive year the Department has been successful in winning the grant.

Dr Daryl Wesley has won an ANSTO (Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) award in its first grant round of the year, for his project radiocarbon-dating art from Arnhem Land. The award will permit the use of equipment at the Lucas Heights facility in NSW to radiocarbon-date mineral crust samples taken from over rock art imagery. The dating process uses innovative technology and will contribute to a better understanding of animal depiction and Indigenous people’s animal interactions that occurred during the Pleistocene and Holocene.

Associate Professor Chris Brebner, Professor Roberta Crouch and Dr Stacie Attrill were successful in winning a $56,000 grant to assist NDIS service providers. Funded by the State Government’s Department for Industry and Skills, the project will see the team help providers improve their business models and services, for the benefit of NDIS funded participants.

 

 

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