Dr Claire Jessup has been successful in securing key immunology funding, while Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu has been recognised for her outstanding service to Australian sociology and Associate Professor Andrew Vakulin has won funding from the US.

Immunology funding success

Congratulations to Dr Claire Jessup, Head of the iMOD Laboratory in the College of Medicine and Public Health, who has successfully secured $50,000 in project support from the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology Inc (ASI).

The prestigious ASI Breakthrough Immunology Award supports promising early- to mid-career researchers achieve a major breakthrough in their career by providing funding for the generation of preliminary data sets required in major competitive grant funding applications.

Distinguished honour for sociology expert

Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu, from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, has been awarded the Australian Sociological Association Distinguished Service to Australian Sociology award from The Australian Sociological Association for her “outstanding, significant, and sustained service to Australian sociology since her appointment to the Sociology Department at Flinders University in 1987”.

To read more about the award and Professor Anleu’s contributions, click here.

US funds for Flinders sleep trial

Associate Professor Andrew Vakulin from FHMRI: Sleep Health has successfully secured $249,647 USD (approximately $373,000 AUD) in funding from the ResMed Foundation, to conduct a 3-year randomised control trial to test if treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea with CPAP can reduce fall risk in older people.

A US-based charitable organisation, the mission of the ResMed Foundation is to promote novel research as well as public and physician awareness of sleep disordered breathing, with a primary focus on positive airway pressure therapies and ventilation-based treatments.