ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
PROJECT SUMMARY: Dementia and diabetes are two of the most common and disabling conditions worldwide, responsible for an enormous and...
ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
PROJECT SUMMARY: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease whereby 50% of cases die within 3 years....
ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
PROJECT SUMMARY: Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, eventually fatal disease of the human motor system. The commonest variant...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a significant global problem, affecting 10 million people worldwide. In Australia alone, 1 in...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are abnormalities of blood vessels, in which direct connections form between arteries and veins....
PROJECT SUMMARY: Human brain tumours (gliomas) generally afflict young individuals in their 30s-40s with significant implications for the individual, their...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Epilepsy affects more than 250,000 Australians, with many of these being refractory to conventional therapies. This is a...
PROJECT SUMMARY: The Development and Management of Post traumatic Epilepsy Post traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a significant health burden on patients...
PROJECT SUMMARY: In addition to the motor consequences of epilepsy, seizures result in cardiovascular and respiratory consequences that, in some...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Amyloid and paraprotein-associated neuropathies (APAN) are a neglected group of debilitating peripheral nerve disorders, resulting in weakness, sensory...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Establishing an Australian pediatric peripheral neuropathy biobank : a rich future scientific research resource. Peripheral nerve diseases result in...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease affecting the brain and spinal cord. There are over...
PROJECT SUMMARY: STOP-BANG and upper airway sensation testing to increase the predictive value of obstructive sleep apnoea in people with...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common fatal childhood brain cancer. Despite significant advances in the treatment of low-risk...
PROJECT SUMMARY: When trauma or disease damages the connection between the motor nerves and skeletal muscle, muscle wasting occurs. This...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Effect of respiration and pathways of fluid flow in spinal cord cysts Traumatic spinal cord injury is a devastating...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Childhood concussion is on the rise. Over 1 in 10 children who present to an emergency care setting...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability in Australia and worldwide. The effects of TBI...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Approximately 200-300 individuals sustain a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) each year within Australia, however globally this number...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Nerve excitability in sporadic migraine and monogenic familial hemiplegic migraine. Migraine is very common, affecting almost 1 in 3...
ELIZABETH PENFOLD SIMPSON AWARD – 2018
The Role Of Brain Connectivity In Post Stroke Function And Recovery Dr Brenton Hordacre University of Adelaide PROJECT SUMMARY: coming soon
In 2017 we awarded 18 grants, including the Dawn Wallace Fellowship Award.
Our Award Ceremony was held on Monday October 9 in Sydney.
Congratulations to all the recipients of 2017 Brain Foundation Research Gift Awards.
Project Summary: In syringomyelia, fluid cysts expand and damage the spinal cord and can lead to disabling pain, paralysis and...
Project Summary: Multiple system atrophy (MSA) affects over 2000 Australians. MSA is a distinct member of the group of neurodegenerative ...
Project Summary: Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) is the most common type of inflammatory muscle disease that affects adults over 40...
Project Summary: Tremor is the rhythmic shaking of a body part and is a common and disabling problem seen in...
Project Summary: Thyroid hormone is essential for regulation of cell metabolism. Hyperthyroidism is an elevation of thyroid hormone levels. It...
Project Summary: Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) are immune disorders of the peripheral nerves. Both...
Project Summary: Tourette syndrome/tics, obsessive compulsive disorder and autism are very common neuropsychiatric diseases with onset in childhood affecting 1...
Project Summary: Motor neurone disease (MND) is a universally fatal neurodegenerative disease with no known cure. More than 2000 people...
Project Summary: Stroke is an important cause of epileptic seizures in adults. While several factors associated with the development of...
Project Summary: Stroke is the most frequent cause of permanent disability in adults and a major cause of death worldwide....
Project Summary: Stroke is the second leading cause of death in the world and a major source of disability affecting...
Project Summary: A new type of cancer treatment, called “immunotherapy”, stimulates the patient’s immune system to fight their cancer. The...
Project Summary: Today in Australia, 4 people will be diagnosed with a brain tumour. This equates to 1600 tumours in...
Project Summary: About 1% of people worldwide suffer from epilepsy. Human temporal lobe epilepsy (hTLE) is the most common type...
ALZHEIMER’S & OTHER NEURO-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Project Summary: A diagnosis of dementia results in significant distress for the individual, their family, and wider social network, and...
ALZHEIMER’S & OTHER NEURO-DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Project Summary: Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia, is a chronic, progressive disease that leads to the degeneration...
In 2016 we awarded 20 grants, including The Inaugural Professor James Lance AO CBE Award, and the Elizabeth Simpson Award.
Our Award Ceremony was held on Monday October 24 at The Art Gallery of NSW, with our Guest of Honour being Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO
Congratulations to all the recipients of 2016 Brain Foundation Research Gift Awards.
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AO CVO has been the Guest of Honour and presented the Awards almost every year since they started at The Great Hall, Sydney University. This makes the Awards Ceremony a very special occasion where successful applicants explain the nature and aims of their projects.
Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, affecting ~30% of the elderly population over 75....
Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: As the brain ages it takes on a pro-inflammatory profile associated with priming of immune cells so that...
Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: Aging causes our cells to decline in both integrity and function. As such, the incidence of disorders that...
Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: Dementia is an increasing epidemic currently affecting some 321,600 people in Australia, with a projected increase to 553,285...
Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) is a highly prevalent chronic illness, characterised by repetitive collapse of the airway during...
Alzheimer’s and Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
Project Summary: Neurodegenerative disease are a major health issue, with 342,800 Australians suffering from dementia. Many people know someone with...
Project Summary: Synaesthesia is a neurological phenomenon, often regarded as a mixing of senses, which affects over 4.4% of the...
Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Disorders
Project Summary: Myelin is an electrically insulating material that forms a sheath around the axons of neurons in the central...
Project Summary: The typical clinical features of Parkinson’s disease (PD) include slow movements, stiffness and resting tremor, often associated with...
Project Summary: Cognitive fatigue is the subjective feeling of increased effort or lack of mental stamina that is accompanied by...
Project Summary: Every 20 minutes someone in Australia suffers a stroke and approximately half of the stroke survivors have spatial...
Project Summary: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are abnormalities of blood vessels, in which direct connections form between arteries and veins....
Project Summary: Cerebral carnevous malformation (CCM), also known as Angioma or Cavernoma, is a cerebrovascular disease which affects the blood...
Project Summary: Stroke is among the top ten causes of death in children and is more common than brain tumours....
Project Summary: There is a critical need for inexpensive, individualised rehabilitation interventions that improve motor function in stroke patients. Each...
Project Summary: Despite decades of intensive research a patient diagnosed with glioblastoma, a devastating form of brain cancer, still faces...
Project Summary: As a neurosurgical trainee at the Royal Melbourne Hosptial, Dr Mitchell manages the care of patients with brain...
Project Summary: This project will investigate the mechanisms by which a genetic mutation causes epilepsy. Epilepsy is a very common...
The inaugural Professor James Lance AO CBE Award Project Summary: Making headway into migraine: assessment of subcutaneous lignocaine and ketamine use...
Monday, 19 October 2015
The Great Hall, Sydney University
Congratulations to all the recipients of 2015 Brain Foundation Research Gift Awards. In 2015 we awarded 13 grants, including the first Major Research Gift to Dr Neil Spratt from the University of Newcastle.
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AO CVO has been the Guest of Honour and presented the Awards almost every year since they started at The Great Hall, Sydney University. This makes the Awards Ceremony a very special occasion where successful applicants explain the nature and aims of their projects.
Neurodegenerative Diseases Award
PROJECT SUMMARY: Alzheimer’s disease is the third leading cause of death in Australia, and currently has no cure. Every day,...
Neurodegenerative Diseases Award
PROJECT SUMMARY: Huntington's disease (HD) is a fatal disorder involving psychiatric symptoms, dementia and uncontrollable movements. The disease is caused...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Freezing of gait is a debilitating symptom of Parkinson’s disease associated with a heightened falls risk, which is...
PROJECT SUMMARY: For the brain to stay healthy, the blood vessels in the brain need to supply it with oxygen...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Subarachnoid haemorrhage from a ruptured brain aneurysm is a major cause of mortality and morbidity. Cerebral vasospasm often...
PROJECT SUMMARY: In Australia, brain cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated death for adults under the age of 40...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, which usually begins in childhood. Seizures can be well-controlled using medications in...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune neuroinflammatory disorder of the central nervous system, characterized by significant disability. Chronic...
Photo: Li Shan Chiu on behalf of Associate Professor Meloni PROJECT SUMMARY: Brain injury or neurotrauma associated with TBI is a...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes more deaths in Australians under 45 years of age than any other cause,...
Tasmania has a long history of health concerns about iodine nutrition. Our soil is low in iodine, for which...
Monday, 13 October 2014
The Great Hall, Sydney University
Congratulations to all the recipients of 2014 Brain Foundation Research Gift Awards. In 2014 we awarded 11 grants, plus the Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Award.
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AO CVO has been the Guest of Honour and presented the Awards almost every year since they started at The Great Hall, Sydney University. This makes the Awards Ceremony a very special occasion when successful applicants explain the nature and aims of their projects.
PROJECT SUMMARY: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia and its prevalence in Australia is increasing at a...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive degenerative condition which develops over several decades. Symptoms include decline in memory...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Alpha(α)-synuclein is a key protein in Parkinson’s Disease (PD). It is the predominant component of Lewy bodies, which...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Despite dramatic advances in technologies, accurate diagnosis of dementia remains a scientific challenge, particularly in the early stages...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Dystonia is a disabling neurological condition that is relatively common. Primary dystonia has a prevalence of greater that...
PROJECT SUMMARY: The aim of this project is explore the therapeutic potential of progranulin - a secreted protein that has...
PROJECT SUMMARY: A common, life-threatening complication of stroke is cerebral oedema (brain swelling) and subsequent elevated intracranial pressure (ICP). Stroke...
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and most deadly form of primary brain cancer. Most patients survive only...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Glioblastoma (GBM) is a devastating primary brain cancer that affects around 800 Australians annually. Despite surgery, radiotherapy and...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the leading causes of death, disability, and hospitalization worldwide. TBI has...
PROJECT SUMMARY: Both neuropathic pain and epilepsy are common chronic disorders which result in significant morbidity to the sufferer, and...
Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Award
Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Award ~ On behalf of: Wai Khay Leong, Tanya L. Henshall, Agnes Arthur, Karlea L. Kremer, Martin...
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In 2018 we awarded 21 grants, including the Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Award.
Our Award Ceremony was held on Monday October 29 in Sydney.
Congratulations to all the recipients of 2018 Brain Foundation Research Gift Awards.
ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
2018PROJECT SUMMARY: Dementia and diabetes are two of the most common and disabling conditions worldwide, responsible for an enormous and...
ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
2018PROJECT SUMMARY: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease whereby 50% of cases die within 3 years....
ALZHEIMER’S AND OTHER NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISEASES
2018PROJECT SUMMARY: Amyotrophic Lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, eventually fatal disease of the human motor system. The commonest variant...
2018PROJECT SUMMARY: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a significant global problem, affecting 10 million people worldwide. In Australia alone, 1 in...
2018PROJECT SUMMARY: Brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are abnormalities of blood vessels, in which direct connections form between arteries and veins....